Chapter 3: Designing Your Website, Listings, and Blogs with HTML
In This Chapter
- Writing descriptions that sell
- Using eBay's HTML tool
- Buffing up your auctions with basic HTML
- Making friends with tables
- Generating auction descriptions and Templates with SeaMonkey
- Creating an ad — fast
I must admit, the very thought of coding used to terrify me. HTML sounds terribly geeky. Yet HTML isn't all that scary after you realize that it's just a fancy name for HyperText Markup Language, an easy-to-use language for creating online content. All you need to know is the markup part.
HTML uses tags to mark pages to include elements such as text and graphics in a way that web browsers understand. A web browser sees the tags, and knows how to display the document (that is, the web page). HTML also makes possible the whole work of links. When you click a link, you jump to another place: another web page, document, or file, for example.
HTML can save you money when it comes to your own website. A little knowledge of HTML will allow you to build your own online store quite simply and insert PayPal Buy Now (or Add to Cart) buttons. By learning a few HTML tricks, you won't have to pay extra for an e-commerce-enabled store from your domain host.
Do you look good on mobile?
A lot of business is transacted via mobile apps. And you can be sure that some buyers will view any website you are selling from ...
Get eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
