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If you are going to be selling for a while, there are a couple of ways around paying for more photographs. To avoid this we bought a corner store. We have more than 2,000 items so alot of the time, it will let us post in auction for free with 12 pictures.
Another way to get around it is to go the HTML route.
This allows you to upload the pictures and input the HTML directly into the post.
First the pictures have to be resized...I do this through windows Live Media Gallery. Take the pictures off of your memory card and put them into a folder on your desktop. When you open WLMG, you will see a drop down of all of the files on your desktop. click the new folder you made for your pictures and right click and hit resize. Then browse for the folder, click it and make a new folder with a very short file name, three letters is best. After it has resized, rename all of the individual files the same thing as the folder. Drag the new folder onto the desktop, delete the old one.
From here, you have to open the pictures in filezilla. On the left hand side, open up the desktop. On the right side, open up public html. Drag your new folder into images (or gallery) to upload. Once this has finished, the pictures are on the net and able to be referenced from the
ebay site.
In filezilla, open up a new page. Blank template (or new template or blank page).
I'm assuming you don't know HTML because I didn't.
In the bottom corner of the text box there are three options, normal html and preview. Click HTML.
Start by telling the page you are doing html. Then tell it you are creating a body.
<html>
<body>
after this, to reference the picture, You type in it's location. end slash which folder you dropped it into (on the right hand side)end slash. folder name end slash. File name, end slash. put a space, type in which picture number it is in. dot jpg end quotes. the width and height are determined by WLMG, and not neccesary. then add a break (so the pictures come out in a nice straight line).
<img src="http://moneypennycollectibles.com/images/fdc/fdc (1).jpg" width="1024" height="683"> <br>
close out the body </body> and lastly the html </html>.
Looks like this on the page
<html>
<body>
<img src="http://moneypennycollectibles.com/images/fdc/fdc (1).jpg" width="1024" height="683"> <br>
</body>
</html>
TIP: ctrl + v = Paste (so you can copy everything and just change the picture number)
Like this:
<html>
<body>
<img src="http://moneypennycollectibles.com/images/fdc/fdc (1).jpg"> <br>
<img src="http://moneypennycollectibles.com/images/fdc/fdc (2).jpg"> <br>
</body>
</html>
Switch to preview once you've finished to make sure it understands the html. If it does, usually you are golden.
From here, type in your description for your item in
ebay. Put in big capital letters HERE where you want the pictures. In the top corner above the post, you have standard view and html view.
Click HTML
TIP: ctrl + f = FIND
type in HERE to the find bar and hit enter until it's been highlighted amongst the HTML. Copy and paste the
<img src="http://moneypennycollectibles.com/images/fdc/fdc (1).jpg" width="1024" height="683"> <br>
html, not the <html><body> or the closing ones because that has already been done.
Switch back to standard view in
ebay to check and make sure the html went through.
Sorry this is so long, but it's all important and it's important to follow the steps exactly. I think the picture thing is kinda BS so I think maybe a couple people could benefit from this.
Best of luck and PM me if you think I might be able to help you with a problem.
Posted 05/31/2012 04:37 am
