I need help with html

liunx · Jan 10, 2008

I am a seller on e-bay and would like to add html to my selling page but do not know how. I would like to add little pictures and colour but how? Do you know spcific html I can just copy? Is it that easy. 
Thank you

I'm not familuar with ebay practices so bear with me. 
in order to place a graphic on a webpage the graphic must be stored on the server. then the code 
<IMG SRC=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"your_graphic_name" BORDER=0> 
will place the image on the webpage as long as the graphic and html are in the same directory. 
Color is a little different. 
Font color and background color use the same values but different formats, for instance black font would be 
your text goes here 
while a black background for the entire page would have to be placed in the body tag like this 
<BODY BGCOLOR="000000"> 
 
If this is just a 1 time event I would suggest just leaving it alone or find a friend nearby that can do it for you. If you expect to be doing this a lot more in the future then Download  a free html editor, (not WYSIWYG), and learn how to use it. I suggest EasyHtml by toniarts. EasyHtml is not WYSIWYG, but you can see what happens when you make certain changes, and it will generate code for you depending on which buttons you click on.sinhart, you forgot the hash sign (#) before the 000000 in the body bgcolor tag. 
 
To change the font color: 
 
Text you want this color 
 
"color" would be either red, green, lime, black, orange, purple, white, gray, silver, etc. I have used written colors because for a beginner, they are easy to remember. 
 
To change the background color: 
 
Before anything else in the page, type: 
 
<body bgcolor="color"> 
 
To change the default text color, type the same as the above but add: 
 
<body bgcolor="color" text="color"> 
 
To add an image: 
 
<img src=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"location.ext"> 
 
"location.ext" would be the location of the image on the web. An example would be <a class="postlink" href="http://www.somepage.html/images/image.gif">http://www.somepage.html/images/image.gif</a> 
 
 
 
I hope this makes sense. 
 
Here is an example of a complete webpage: 
 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>The title of your webpage</title> 
</head> 
<body bgcolor="gray" text="green"> 
Hello 
Hello 
Hello 
</body> 
</html> 
 
HTML is actually very easy to learn compared to all the other stuff. The "Teach yourself HTML for the World Wide Web" published by Peachpit Press. It is a good book which makes HTML very easy to learn. 
 
If you have any more questions, ask me.Zach Elfers 
Here is an example of a complete webpage 
 
You've used many deprecated elements and your complete Web page isn't very complete. 
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" 
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> 
 
<html lang="en-us"> 
 
<head> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> 
<title></title> 
</head> 
 
<body style="background: gray; color: green"> 
 
Hello Hello Hello 
 
</body> 
 
</html>Originally posted by Zach Elfers 
sinhart, you forgot the hash sign (#) before the 000000 in the body bgcolor tag. 
 
Actually the hash is optional I guess, I have seen it used but I never use it. 
You are right about using the color names for a beginner, besides being easy to remember they are "safe" in all browsers.Originally posted by sinhart 
 
You are right about using the color names for a beginner, besides being easy to remember they are "safe" in all browsers. 
 
Of cource only as long as you use the correct names 
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#didx-parameter_entity-2">http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#d ... r_entity-2</a> 
 
If you use others they might fail, especially in older browsers.Hi... 
 
It's very simple: 
 
1. go to a vendor's page at ebay, who's offering similar kind of product--or, select a vendor's page which you've liked. 
 
2. Go to File Menu--Save As--(html only) and save that file in your computer. 
 
3. Open that saved file in both in your IE and Notepad. 
 
4. Just go through the codes to see how does it make to look like that page. 
 
OR, 
 
You can design your page in MS Word (use table, give background color to the table cells) and save that file in HTML. Open that HTML file in Notepad, and copy the codes (after BODY through /BODY) and paste it at your ebay description section. 
 
To add pictures in your ebay, please note that you need to upload the picture to some web host and refer that picture into your image tag. 
 
Like, if you link a picture of your hard disk say : <img src=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"file:///c:/my pictures/mypicture.jpg"> which may show correctly in your offline browser, but this won't work on the net. So, you need to upload "mypicture.jpg" to a web server, and refer the image as <img src=http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/archive/index.php/"http://www.SOMEWEBHOST.com/mypicture.jpg"> 
 
OR, 
 
You may take help of a web designer at your place to make a page for you. 
 
Hope this helps... 
 
Best regards 
 
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