Need help creating a template

I found a great online tool that allows you to create templates from scratch or from samples in their library and then customize them. Go to
http://www.robshelp.com/
They do ask for a $1/month donation . After I tried it out for a while I paid for a year !
Once created there it is simple to copy and paste the code into Auctiva's custom template section and save . Hope this helps .

Thanks for the reply. I used Rob's help for quite a while, but it was so cumbersome and cluttered I had to quit. But I may take the suggestion if I can't do anything else. Yesterday I found a place to create a tiled border, but when I pasted it into Auctiva's "create new template" box, I got the response saying I cannot have more than one description tag. This has got me stumped.

Hi,

You can use one of auctiva templates as a base line, and change the colors, text etc, add in some of the tags, [description] [store_front] etc and place them where you want them.

To do this go to the LISTING tab, click on the MANAGE link, then from there click on CREATE FROM EXISTING.

At the bottom of that page you can see all auctivas templates, click on any of them and it will load all the html coding into the text editor. Copy and paste that into www.practicelink.com

and play away !!!

The reason you are getting the error message "I cannot have more than one description tag " is because you don't have ANY description tags in the template. You need to have auctivas description tag in there, so that when you type up your description later it will know where to place the wording.

Place this in your template [DESCRIPTION] this is the descrip tag. You can also place the image tags in anywhere on the page. [IMAGE1]

BUT, if you place 2 images side by side they will be to large and make your template scroll out. Place them down the page.

good luck,

Carol