June 2005
Beginner
463 pages
14h 19m
English
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Prepare Your Listings with a Web Page Editor
Use a standalone HTML editor or word processor to format your listing descriptions.
Sometimes, the only way to achieve a desired effect in a listing description is to hand-code the HTML [Hack #52] , or so they would lead to you believe.
If you’re a WYSIWYG purist (as opposed to an ASCII purist or a sushi purist), you may prefer to create your complex page layouts with a dedicated graphical web page editor, such as Mozilla Composer (free as part of Mozilla Suite, www.mozilla.org), HTML-Kit (free from www.chami.com/html-kit), or a full-blown commercial product like Dreamweaver (www.macromedia.com). Or, if you’re most comfortable using a good ol’ word processor (e.g., Word-perfect or Word), you can output to HTML as long as you’re using a recent release of the software.
The problem is that web page editors are designed to generate complete HTML pages rather than snippets to be inserted into other pages. This means that you’ll need to modify the generated HTML code before inserting it into one of your listings. Otherwise, your page may not display correctly and may even interfere with people’s ability to bid on your item.
To avoid such display problems, open the generated HTML file in a
plain text editor (e.g., notepad in Windows) so you can see the HTML
tags. The actual body of the page is contained within a <body></body> structure, so all
you need to do is delete everything before the opening <body> tag and everything after the
closing </body> ...
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