August 2013
Beginner
840 pages
20h 6m
English
Content preview from eBay Business All-in-One For Dummies, 3rd Edition
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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 ...
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