Creating an eBay ready web page

[dogbertbh]

I'm on day 2 of my free trial. I'm so blown away it's incredible.

I've even recruited some non-web/computer/technical folk at work here to feign excitement because it's that good.

Before yesterday revolutionized my thinking, I was using deamweaver and Trellian Web Page to let my managers upload cars to eBay using another website as a storage area for the pictures with all the links spelled out.

Example: http://images.autouplinkusa.com/v/76...6KJ1239201.jpg

Is there a way to have the full links the same way without editing the HTML in Xara?

Thanks,

Bobby Harris
Bradford, MA

[a4hire]

You should be able to add any link to any object in xtreme. If you select the object and then Ctrl,Shift, W you can add a link .

[dogbertbh]

Hi Bruce,

Links alone are not the issue.

If you have the line <img src="wernertest2.htm_files/0.png" border="0" alt="" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 801px; height: 595px; position: absolute;"/>

It's a lot different from <img src="http://www.carcreditnh.com/wernertest2.htm_files/0.png" border="0" alt="" style="left: 0px; top: 0px; width: 801px; height: 595px; position: absolute;"/>

I need to reference another site for the images on the HTML description

[a4hire]

I see what you mean. I have not tried that in the html export. I will have to try it and see if I can figure anything out.

[gwpriester]

If you are just linking to another image that is on another site then just give the link to the image and use the New Window command.

For example http://www.graphics.com/modules/Gall...lbum09/aag.jpg this link goes to a specific image on another website.

Using the New Window command opens a window with that image but does not take the visitor away from your page.

[raynerj1]

Ummm Gary... That is just a popup which is blocked by most modern browsers by default. (Not a good idea to suggest those).

[dogbertbh]

Tomorrow I'm going to try inserting an iframe into the HTML description on eBay.

This way I can have the entire page show without special links.

I'll let you know how it works with eBay tomorrow.

-Harris

[dogbertbh]

Well the iFrame doesn't work.

eBay doesn't allow the javascript term IFRAME into their descriptions.

Now I need to figure a way to alter the code generated by xara to point to the right domain from within the description

-Oh well

[sculptex]

dogbertbh - did you have any luck with this?

[dogbertbh]

I had no luck with this, actually.

There's something about how Xara sets up the web page to start at the absolute top of the page.

I recently tried doing something an HTML based email for a non-ebay application and when I sent it to someone using browser-based email (gmail, comcast, etc.) it didn't work. People using Outlook Express saw exactly what I expected.