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How to Put Your Own Images into Your Auctions and Webpages a Beginners Guide
By: Daren Jephcote
We have all been there when we started. Wanting to have our own pictures inside the auction rather than just in the ebay box at the end. We have all looked at other auctions and thought, how did they do that?
Well, let me enlighten you....
We will make the assumption that you have enough HTML knowledge to build your own auction page and that you have some webspace for your pictures (if not, there are free services out there, search for free image hosting on the search engines...)
Now we are ready to insert images. If you follow these steps, you will soon have an image inside your auction for the whole world to see.
1 Create or edit the image you wish to use (making sure it is the size you want)
2 Save it to your image folder on your pc
3 upload this folder via your ftp program (that allows you to send files to your webspace or image host)
4 Open up your advert page in your HTML editor (or notepad)
5 insert the cursor at the EXACT point you want the image to appear
6 insert the following code....
< img scr="http://www.yourimagehost.com/your-image-folder/your-image-name.imgext* alt="your pictures title" width="your pictures width" height="your pictures height" >
7 save and paste into your eBay auction.
Just to explain the code above briefly, the "http" relates to where your picture is hosted (your space or an image hosting webspace).
The "alt" is the image title that will show when you hover over a picture in IE
the "imext" refers to your image extension, be it .gif .jpg etc
The "width" and "height" will control your picture size and render it as you wish it to be seen.
This works on all HTML pages so you can use it on your own site too.
Enjoy.
By D. Jephcote, BSc. PCM. Cert Web Apps (Open). LOS Design offer internet consultancy for business and home users. With many years experience in online trading, his site located at http://www.losdesign.co.uk makes a great place to visit. With useful information regarding safe shopping online and merchant account information. |
