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tictictic_OnEbay
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10/28/06 01:49 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: AquilaStamps]  

Interesting. This could be the problem. When I use Notepad to view the source code of #140033864166, the text is over to the left of the page when viewed full screen. When I view the source code of my other auctions, the text fills the page left to right.

So just remove all line breaks/spaces? I suppose I could use Word to do that. Will experiment.

Thanks Garry.

Sue



AquilaStamps
(member)
10/28/06 04:46 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue:
the fastest and easiest way to do the change is to go in aw2k to the auction lot for #140033864166. Make sure it is exactly the way you want it. Do a preview template. Then right click and view source. Look at the HTML and copy the portion that has the PIX and TEXT. Then go to your auction, edit it and PASTE in the new stuff over the top of the same part of the auction. Just view the edit before you submit and you will be done.

The reason I'm telling you this is that it will be TONS easier than making all of the individual small changes you will have to do to make the existing auction work.

I know this is rather simplistic, but it will work. Reason I know???? -- messed up big time on an auction a while back and that's how I fixed it. was lots easier than editing the auction on line or canceling it.

Garry



AquilaStamps
(member)
10/28/06 04:49 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue:
I'm happy to hear that there were no owies. Root Canals are no fun - I think the time after the procedure is worse than the time in the chair.

Thank God for Novicane!

Garry





AquilaStamps
(member)
10/28/06 04:54 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Hi:
Sorry I didn't read this post before I sent you an earlier post. But you can see what the <IMG tag can and will do to pix. You got part of it correct that's for sure. However, the width and placement of the text box is the problem now and to change it will create a LOT of typing in edit mode in eBay. In my earlier post I suggested that you open the auction in aw2k in preview mode. Make sure it is correct. Then right click the preview and click on view source. Then read the source and where the PIX begin to the END of your description -- mark it all and copy.

Then go to eBay - edit the auction, got to the description, mark the same material (beginning of pix to end of description) and PASTE in the new stuff you had copied from view source.

That should do it for you.

Garry



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/28/06 06:08 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

Sue,

Well, I went right past the problem and straight to the skirt. Is that a real "The Limited"" Skirt???? And is it really a size 0. Do you have any idea how hard it is for me to find size 0 in Limited attire??? My word. Half my business clothing is The Limited as it is about all I can get that really fits this skinny frame of mine.

Okay, I'll focus now Garry's fix will "fix" you up in short order. I've had to to do the same thing before. And I'm glad he was around to type out what to do. As I have been a party animal tonight. complete with cake walk, boys against the girls team games (in which the girls always cheat ) Smoked Wild boar and just lots of fun.

Judy/blue



AquilaStamps
(member)
10/28/06 06:38 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: bluepennylady]  

Judy:
Cake walk sounds like tons of fun - brings me back to my home church in Jr. High -- before electric light - so all cakes had to have candles on them.

However, I'm shocked, aghast, surprised, and even a tad flummoxed --

you smoked

oops wait, nevermind it was wild boar

Whew - thought we were gonna have to get you a laptop and a T-1 connection in the jail cell.

I hope Sue can fix her auction OK. I tried to give half way understandable directions. But what one person thinks is clear as a bell is simply a mess for someone else. The cut and paste method is sometimes the only way to go because there is so much editing to do and much if it is numbers and symbols. Also eBay mashes all the HTML together and it's hard to find stuff. BTW that's why I put remarks in my HTML for eBay pages, It makes it tons easier to find something if I do have to edit. Of course you can only do it when you are making your own template but almost all of us do that so the comment is an easy thing to do and makes life easier if you ever do have to go to edit a live auction.

Garry



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/28/06 06:47 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: AquilaStamps]  

Garry,

You can go ahead and be aghast 'cause I cheated at the golf ball toss real bad. Even one of our sons kept hollering, "Mom you are cheating move back behind the line." Why that young man of mine even tried to pick up his kicking mom and place her in the right spot. I am sad to report though, the cheating didn't help the girls to win. The boys whipped us 21 to 18

I hope Sue can get it fixed as well. And I am glad you were around to tell her how to do it. I wasn't where I could look at her stuff 'cause I was in this big hurry to get to the wild party.

Judy/blue



tictictic_OnEbay
(member)
10/28/06 06:59 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: AquilaStamps]  

Yeah, but.......(exposing myself to ridicule and piteous laughter) I thought we couldn't do that anymore, now that we use the API version. I vaguely remember something about not being able to patch in the code from a template. I've done that many times, but I didn't try it this time cuz I thought it wouldn't work any more. Plus......aren't the image addresses different in the template code? Of course that can be fixed by just plugging in the correct image addresses. Well, I'll try it anyway. This auction is my playground.

Sue



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/28/06 07:07 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: tictictic_OnEbay]  

In reply to:

exposing myself to ridicule and piteous laughter


Nah, I won't be laughin' at you. Remember you are talking to the mom/grandma that cheated at the church fall party playing the golf ball toss and still lost. It is a sad day indeed.

The image URL won't need to be changed. It is just the text arrangement that is changed. So you are correct in that if you alter the image URL, you'll have to put the original URL into the template you are listing at eBay. The API version affects the manner in which AW2K communicates with eBay. But we still have control over the way our Listing templates look. If that helps you any at all. And if this is your playground, you can cheat anyway you want to.

Judy/blue



bluepennylady
(addict)
10/28/06 07:10 PM
Re: Image placement puzzle new [re: AquilaStamps]  

In reply to:

Cake walk sounds like tons of fun




It was fun but the music was not loud enough so Yours truly here became the vocalist. Boy that is a challenge outside. But the kids had a blast 'cause I do actions with my songs. They get to laughing and don't remember to walk, then I stop singing and everyone is scrambling to find a number.

Judy/blue




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