Well...maybe not! It must be a work in progress and I jumped the gun. At this point I can change my old templates so they use two identical image url tags e.g. <a href="[IMAGE1_URL]"><img src="[IMAGE1_URL] width=140 border=0"></a>
It will "update" without giving me the red warning about two tags, but it doesn't save the changes. Making a new template from scratch with two tags will not save and gives me the red warning.
Oh, well. I told you I get anxious when Christmas comes in November.
CB
Posts: 265 | Location: Taratupa | Registered: October 20, 2005
Originally posted by Auctiva David: We have not updated yet today. Thanks for your patience
I have just tried again to place more than 1 of the same image tag. BOO HOO it still gives me the error message. "You can not have more than one of the same image tag" blah de blah . Then the whole thing went poof ! and all my code was gone ?
Its now 6.42 pm EST time. Maybe I am jumping the gun to try this code so soon. I am just eager to try it out. Anyone out there managed to do it yet ? If you did, what image tags are you using ? maybe I did it wrong..
Avast! The first thing to jump out at me is that all your "img src" codes have the word "/listings/" ahead of the [IMAGE#_URL] tag. That won't fly, m'dear. The way to avoid getting that put into yer code, is to take yer whole template HTML code and paste it directly into the text editor, and save it right immediately. Don't switch to the design editor and don't try to preview it. After it's saved, you can go ahead and edit it **in the text editor** but don't never switch to the Design editor. It's that slab-sided barnacle-encrusted rotten sod of a design/html editor what puts the unwanted code int there.
CB
Posts: 265 | Location: Taratupa | Registered: October 20, 2005
I will go back into it and redo that. Good idea on the click tag Tom, thanks.
There is another question I have on this subject. CB mentioned not to view the template in design view or preview. Otherwise it adds on extra code. I asume ? you mean when I am creating it Capt.
So, when I have made a new listing and connect the template with the listing, I press "save template " and it adds it onto the listing. Then I really like to PREVIEW before launching or scheduling my auction. I am having a hard time just listing without previewing anything.
Is it ok to PREVIEW at this stage ? just before you launch it to Ebay ? or will it mess up again and add on extra code ?
By the way I have just posted a new post about a major problem I have just encountered when creating a custom template. (see new post in custom template site.
And now I am going to hit myself with a limp noodle.. and go and cry in the corner ... sigh... I will not be defeated lol... try .try and try again..
Can you have a look at it for me. (anyone) I don't think I am doing anything wrong ? (huh famous last words, which I'm going to eat I bet ya) but something is not right...
Posts: 339 | Location: NH | Registered: October 29, 2005
I have been so intent on getting this right I didn't even this those rotton little tags ekkkk
Thank you.. thank you a million thanks xxxx
Oops. Hit the post button before I said anything!. Anyway, if you're an idiot, then you're in good company...me! Somewhere in a different thread you'll see where I made the same mistake. Maybe you even "caught" it from me.
Yep, like Dave says, the place to preview your listings is on the listing page when you're making a new ad. I probably didn't differentiate: It's the Design/HTML editor on the create or modify "template pages" that likes to put in extraneous text. This is not a problem unique to Auctiva. In fact I can't think of anyone else with a WYSIWYG editor that doesn't mess up your code to one extent or another. It's the nature of the beast. I know that SD, Vendio, and Poster Toaster all have that problem. For that matter, so do the big WYSIWYG web-page creators, including Front Page (horrible!), Dreamweaver, Trellian, and on and on.
(Climbs on soapbox) To me a WYSIWYG HTML editor is kind of like these do-it-yourself incorporation, last will and testament, and divorce kits you see at Staples. They are designed to attract those who know not what they do - and they do work: a. occasionally, b. to a certain extent. But, just like these legal shortcut kits, WYSIWYG HTML can come back to bite you in the stern sheets. And, just like a do-it-yousrelf last will, if you want to be really free from all worries about whether it will work right, ya gotta do it the old fashioned way, by hand. (Climbs down, picks up soap-box, attempts to explain to wife just exactly who he was just talking to down in the basement).
CB
Posts: 265 | Location: Taratupa | Registered: October 20, 2005
yes I think I caught it from you ..giggle .. got to blame some one else ...cos I'm a women and thats wots we wimin do...
But thank you so much for all your help and David and Tom Too. ... I have gone grey this week.. time for some more hair restorer...
Well Great NEWS It is working !!! yippeee. Now all I have to do is tweek it some more.. ohh do I dare mess with it.. yes of course, I am women and we like to mess around until it is perfect.
I'm sure I will be back with more questions. So batton down the hatch me hearties...
I have gone grey this week.. time for some more hair restorer...
Be sure to read what CNN anchorman Anderson Cooper says on that subject: http://www.drudgereport.com toward the bottom of the center column if you hurry.
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Well Great NEWS It is working !!! yippeee. Now all I have to do is tweek it some more.. ohh do I dare mess with it.. yes of course, I am women and we like to mess around until it is perfect.
"Fix it 'til it's broke, lads"...that's me motto.
CB
Posts: 265 | Location: Taratupa | Registered: October 20, 2005
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