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Re: anyone else having problems with Auctiva website?
BTW - if you know anything about HTML, check out your listing's HTML code - I just love how Auctiva's editor produces utter gibberish like this: (see below) For those that don't know - it's just insane to be producing code that recursively changes sizes and fonts 7...8...10 times in a row in a single block of text. I once estimated that Auctiva had added 45,000 extra completely useless characters of code to one of my listings (recursive code where only one font/character size actually...
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Re: Upating Active Listings
Hi, You can make a limited set of changes from the Active Listings page including adding/appending an image. For anything else, you need to use the eBay Revise listing editor at the eBay site. Danno
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Re: anyone else having problems with Auctiva website?
I am new to HTML and just learning to make my own templates. I use free tools TagBot and RagTag from ShipScript at isdntek dot com to play with their sample templates and look at the code to understand. I noticed that there was a lot of on and off font pairs in code I viewed. I looked at some generated Auctiva code and saw things that made no sense too. But I also saw that if I don't make up my mind on the selecting a font when designing in an editor and try different sizes, it will turn on...
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Re: When testing my HTML, eBay SYI changes the code
I understand that HTML is evolving and getting more enhancements and more structure and stricter rules. But at the same time it has a need to support older standards and faze them out (deprecated is the term, correct?). What really bothered me was eBay SYI changing correct code options of valign=middle to the incorrect code valign=center. At W3schools, it does not say that the incorrect code was ever correct or deprecated. Then the correct align=center is changed to the incorrect...
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Re: Listing Problems Beginning on Tuesday, April 21
The new editor seems to prefer CSS inline style over font tags for it's own code creation. That's not really any surprise, as most of the modern up-to-date editors tend to avoid obsolete (termed depreciated) code. I would have to see code examples to run any checks or speculate on why it's dropping fonts and sizes, other than if those were originated from incompatible sources, like Office/Word. Posting examples is always the best method to get assistance, and to get Auctiva's attention, i.e.
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Re: Listing Problems Beginning on Tuesday, April 21
I have been away for a month and today was looking forward to getting up and running again. I spent an hour with one listing doing just about everything described in this thread. Jumping to another part of the screen when trying to Preview or Save. The Description Editor is absolutely awful...changing font sizes and spacking and moving things around! What on earth happened while I was gone? It's OK..I know...an Upgrade! I have been with Auctiva a long time and have always loved the system as...
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Re: Using Auctiva Templates
Hi, The description header is followed by whatever you enter in the one-page lister description editor box. The other headers are inserts from a Seller Details profile, which is selected to the right of where you select template on the one-page lister. See the Profile tab to create Seller Details. Danno
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Re: newbe to auctiva lost my listing when I went to photos
Hi, drag and drop? That might be the problem. You add photos in the one-page listing editor by clicking on the "Select an Image" in the Image Selection section, or you can use the Insert an Auctiva Hosted Image icon in the description editor to add single images within that section (placed as you want). dragging and dropping possiblly caused the editor to throw-out the existing code with the dropped picture (as an unaccepted function). That's a guess, as I've never tried that, but know it...
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Re: Pasting text into description
Are you using the Paste from Word button on the toolbar? Note, Word markup language code isn't compatible and needs to be cleaned for use in the editor. Danno
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Re: Pasting text into description
Word uses a markup language code that's not compatible with HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code. That's why HTML pages created by copy and paste of Word documents often won't display correctly (especially with other than the IE browser) and can corrupt the page. That's why that paste button is there, to cleanup the bad Word code (and I don't mean offensive language). Danno Edit: Let me emphasize that it has NEVER been an acceptable practice to place Word Code in listings on eBay and could...
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Re: Pasting text into description
Hi, Use a text editor, like Notepad, to create the text and copy - paste the text to the description editor, then add the formatting. You could also use a good HTML/CSS desktop editor to create the code for copy - paste using the editor in HTML mode. However, the new editor is somewhat picky about standards compliance. I'm still experimenting with that later option to see if its got limitations. For the moment, I'd follow Auctiva's latest recommendation (actually not new) and use Notepad or...
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Re: Why do my PROFILES keep getting rearranged?
Hi, Got something for you to try. I took one of your active listings and through process of elimination may have discovered what's causing code to drop-out. You have a Shockwave for the Getmeeb Live Chat that has a minor coding error. It's missing it's closing/end tag. The code element looks like this: <embed src="http://widget.meebo.com/mm.swf?hGpyRrcJJF" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="350" height="300"> You need to add the end tag </embed> so it...
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Re: Formatting and Preview Problems (Primarily with IE 8.0)
Hi Community, Update - We have been recording the feedback users who have been having trouble formatting since we introduced the new version of the description editor around when this thread was started and we just implemented some changes that we hope will alleviate the problems some of you have been experiencing. Specifically, the description editor should now do the following: 1) remove escaped html (primarily a FF problem) 2) remove elements hidden with style='display:none' 3)...
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Re: Pasting text into description
I'm trying to follow this as I'm having all the same problems with the new editor. For the benefit of people like myself, who have no knowledge of html, etc, please can we have a step by step remedy in plain language? I gather that because I have previously copied/pasted text into my listings, that they are now 'corrupted' in the new editor and that is causing all the unwanted changes in font size/colour, spacing, etc. Will this now affect all my existing listings? How can I make sure it...
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Re: Is There A Way
Hi, There is a method to Import Closed Listings only from the Aucctiva Closed Listings page (designate the listing(s) and use the Import button). Once they are imported (takes some time as it's a scheduled thing they do), you'll see them in your Imported Listings folder on the Saved Listings page. As a Saved Listing, you can use the mass change tools on that page, i.e. the Find & Replace and Bulk Edit functions. I'd recommend you runs a few checks and tests with samples from the Import...
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Re: Pasting text into description
Jane, If you are pasting from plain text (like Notepad), use the Paste from plain text ICON to do the paste. Same advise for pasting from Word, use the Paste from Word ICON. Follow JeanieB's advise to have the editor convert from Word to HTML/CSS and it WORKS! If you were using the old paste method of right-mouse click and paste or Ctrl-V, those methods are a PROBLEM, especially with Firefox. It doesn't insert the text and build code correctly. That's what causes the editor to later dump the...
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Re: HTML not displaying properly in ads
Hi, If you're doing any text paste to the editor in standard view (not HTML), make sure you use the paste icons on the toolbar. The editor is a little fussy on HTML code. It likes completeness and will tend to sanitize what it doesn't like. Danno
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Re: HTML not displaying properly in ads
Well, I would agree the editor is a little fussy. Actually, a lot fussy. But, I sucked it up and re-did the coding it didn't like, so all is good in my little world now ;-) Thanks, Rob PS - Danno, great quote!
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Re: Problem with auctiva hosted images
Hi, Try this.... The Auctiva Hosted Images button inserts code to display the original (full size) image. Switch the editor to HTML mode and locate the URL that it inserts, and you'll see the file name in the URL ends with _o.jpg where the "o" is the original. Change that "o" to "tp" and it will switch the link to the 400 x 300 stored image, e.g. _tp.jpg That will provide same standard size images as the Auctiva usual view methods with the 1 - 24 images, and keep the look the same for all. Danno
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Re: Wasted almost 2 days on this , Auctiva Deletes ahref=
Hi, The simple answer is, there isn't anything within the anchor tags to "anchor", i.e. you need an element within the tag for the anchor to operate correctly. I see how they are used as tabs, so I'd suggest using the images that are currently set as background for the tabs/buttons by the class style as the anchors, e.g. <a href="link"><img src="image url"></a> That way a click anywhere on the image (sets the boundary for the anchor) will get the link. Note, add...
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Re: Problem with auctiva hosted images
HI Danno, I am confused. When I switch the description editor to HTML from standard the tool bars go away and there is no longer a button for the auctiva hosted images or any other buttons for that matter. Am I doing something wrong? How can I insert an auctiva hosted image if there isn't a button for it once I switch to HTML?
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Re: My Ebay Listing is Different that What I Saved!
Hi, I'm a little confused by that statement. Are you using the Template editor to make changes to the description or the (normal) one-page listing editor? If you are using a special template you've coded, can you paste the template to www.practicewriter.com and post the link to the template to the Forum. Danno
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Re: My Ebay Listing is Different that What I Saved!
Good Morning Tina, Testing completed. Here's an update on that prior posted composite: http://practicewriter.com/vu/?58C06 I made one minor text change. You had language accepting "Money Order" in the Payment section. That's now a eBay policy problem and can result in listing cancellation or worse. I deleted that sentence. Here are the Template and Description section pieces Template: http://practicewriter.com/vu/?58D42 Description: http://practicewriter.com/vu/?58D44 You can view the HTML...
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Re: Site Slowness
If you use Word, Note Pad or similar to write your description, you can use that programme's spell-check. Then just copy & paste into Auctiva's description editor, adjust the formatting and you're done.
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Re: FONT PROBLEMS PLEEEEEEESE HELP
Hi, Actually, I'm not seeing that problem code in the template. It may be a bug in the code builder for this codeset. Neil, or someone at Auctiva, needs to look at that listing code and examine what happened. Because the listing has been revised at eBay, it's possible their revise editor has contributed in some way to errors I'm seeing, including some code fragments. A custom template might at least temporarily solve the problem. Danno Update: I'm unsuccessful in attempting to replicate the...
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Re: Unable to post auction...please help!
Hi, Are you doing a copy and paste of code to the description box from a word processing editor like Word? Danno
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Re: Unable to post auction...please help!
Hi, The text when viewed in HTML is clearly showing origin from Microsoft Word. <w:WordDocument> Also, the very first statement is .... <link href="file:///C:\Users\Tony\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List" /> Which is referencing a file on your local C: drive. Danno Edit: Microsoft Word builds code which is incompatible with HTML. A text editor, like Notepad, can be used.
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Re: Spell check not working
Hi Community, Yes, unfortunately, due to the problem we have experienced with the spell checker, we have decided to remove the spell checker from the editor entirely. We are going to be replacing the editor or integrating a new spell checker into the existing editor with a future site update, but I'm not quite sure when that will happen yet. For those of you who don't already know, the Firefox browser has a built in spell checker that will automatically underline any misspelled words in red...
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Re: Help!!! Cannot copy and paste pictures!
Hi, I've seen a few other posts from members indicating that they'd used a similar method in the past and it's now disallowing, i.e. a file that's located in "My Pictures" isn't located on the web, so has no URL for hosting. Technically, it shouldn't work due to that limitation. I think Auctiva has done some updates to the editor to catch problems like this and use of Copy - Paste from Word documents. Note, I see they have a pop-up box now to scrub Word pastes of bad code. I'd recommend...
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Re: Scrolling Gallery
Hi teddybairre60, Thanks for letting us know about this. I just reviewed your account and it appears your settings are configured to place the scrolling gallery above the description, so they appear to be set correctly with respect to what you are looking to achieve. Since your settings are configured to place the scrolling gallery at the top of your listings, the only way it should end up at the bottom is if the item had already received a bid or had less than 12 hours of duration left when...
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Re: editing and listing on ebay problems
Hi Robert, In answer to question #1, Auctiva is a separate system from eBay's, so making a change at Auctiva on a Saved Listing doesn't directly change the active listing on eBay. Essentially, Auctiva is a "building" service to create listings to SEND to eBay. Once the listing is submitted to eBay (with only minor exceptions), you make any change to the listing using eBay's Revise Listing editor from your eBay account. In answer to question #2, I'm not sure if you mean a true eBay Store...
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Re: Problems transferring items to eBay shop.
Hi, You submit listings to eBay using Auctiva's one-page listing editor to create and save listings for submission. That's similar to creating listings with Turbolister or eBay's own one-page listing editor from your eBay account. Auctiva's editor can add any of their 1500+ stock templates or you can create your own template using the template editor. You can also build profiles for standard text sections of a listing, like the Shipping section info. Images you upload can also be added to...
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Re: editing payment & shipping details
Hi, Shipping details, i.e. the text under the shipping header in a template with placeholder tag [SHIPPING], is created and stored as one of the Seller Details profile elements. You create a Seller Details at the Profile tab and can apply them to a listing in the one-page listing editor just to the right of the blue Select Template box. The code builder uses the tag system to add the Seller Details at post. Danno
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Re: What Happened to Spell Check?
Hi Community, I'm sorry to hear you are missing the spell check feature. We were having some problems with the spell checker on the editor and we ended up having to remove it. We are either going to be replacing the entire description editor with a new one or integrating a new spell check plug-in to the existing description editor with a future site update, but when that may happen has not been decided yet. The Firefox web browser, which can be downloaded free of charge from...
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Re: question about entering paypal username in listing setup
Hi neciebez, Thanks for contributing to our Community Forum. If eBay has rejected a listing you have tried to post due to API errors indicating that there is an email address in the listing, it is most likely that there is an email address in the description editor or the seller details profile selected for the listing. You are still permitted to enter your Paypal email address in the "Paypal notification will go to" field because that determines where your payments will go, but eBay no...
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Re: Embedded video on ebay
Hi ajolson1964, Yes, you can certainly add video to eBay listings that you create through Auctiva. In order to add video to a listing, you will need to acquire the HTML code used to generate the video from an eBay supported video hosting site (such as You Tube or Google) and then embed that code into the HTML version of the description editor when creating the listing. You can access the HTML version of the description editor on the Auctiva listing creation page by clicking the “Source” tab...
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Re: Are templates really free and how to use
Hi debw, Thanks for contributing to our forum. The templates available through our site are specifically designed to be used for listings posted through Auctiva, so I'm not sure our service will be of much help to you if your intention is to continue posting your items through eBay's Turbo Lister. If you are creating a listing through the Auctiva lister page, which can be reached by mousing over the “Listings” tab and selecting the “Create New” option, you will be able to choose one of our...
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Re: Can't click into item description box
I had same issue and here is my response to a support request: I checked the account preference within your Auctiva account and see that you are using old description editor. Please note that Our old description editor in incompatible with IE10 browser, and eventually you may need to start composing your listing's descriptions using the new 'Design Editor v2.0' Description editor entirely to avoid any such issues as reported by you. To do so, please hover your pointer over the My Account tab...
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Re: Can I enter a Tag that will show as Ebay user Id in auto emails?
Hi howtobuild-plans, Thanks for contributing to our forum. When you are creating or modifying an email template through your Auctiva account, the menus on the editor called Item Information, Your Information, Combined Info and Checkout Details each contain tags that can be used to insert transaction specific details for the Template Type you have selected. If you would like to insert your eBay username into an email template, you should be able to create the appropriate tag by choosing the...
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Re: HTTPS compliant
Hello - (itsjustme) links that can be used from our Description Editor tool that lead to other eBay pages will continue to operate as they normally do and are being included in our links updates to HTTPS URLs. (bluebirds15) we are not aware of any difficulties with the templates or template selector themselves, although it is possible to see an error message in the selector window if you are not reaching the site securely (by using an older link/bookmark that does not use HTTPS). If that is...
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Re: HTTPS eBay Secure Policy Changes
Hello 2librans - We have already updated the hosting for images and the links that previously lead back to Auctiva as needed and you should not need to make any changes in relation to links inserted by Auctiva or using the tool in the description editor to add links to your descriptions. Newly posted listings should not encounter any difficulty. If you encounter an issue related to a link, please feel free to file a support case from under the Help tab of the site letting us know the item...
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Re: HTTP
Hi, In general, you use an IMG tag with format something like: <img alt="" src="http://Image URL"> The template editor also has insert Image icons that can be used to build the code with either a hosted URL or one of your images stored at Auctiva. Danno
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Re: I can't save my templete
Hi, One (and only one) of those two tags needs to be used in the template builder to create your template. That tag is used to insert your description text and (in the later case) your images into your listing using Auctiva's one-page listing editor. Danno
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Re: New to this method of listing
Hi, If the listing was Imported, it should be in your Saved Listings. Go to the listing tab and select Saved Listings on that page. That will display a page of your Saved Listings. If you locate and select that listing for edit, you'll get Auctiva's one-page lister (similar to eBay's one-page editor). Hopefully, that will get you started with revision of the listing. I'd recommend you take Auctiva's tutorials and checkout the FAQs at the HELP link (top of any page). Danno
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Re: HTML Codes for template
Good morning. Well, because the banner has a white-white #ffffff background and the other backgrounds were a slightly yellowed white, I opted to put the banner inside the main border and give it its own 1px black border. That seems to give it boundaries and good look with the rest of the template. Hope that's OK? I also placed a 2px border around the pictures in the same red as the hair and font. That can be easily changed. I use a slighly yellowed gray on the picture mat to match the white.
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Re: active ebay listings imported into Auctiva
I don't know if you looked at the other postings, but here is some excellent information I found: Posted 01-08-09, 12:31 Hide Post Dear Cathy, Welcome to Auctiva! It is certainly possible to revise your listings that are currently running to use Auctiva's image hosting, but it will entail a fairly cumbersome process because the images you are using would need to be uploaded into Auctiva and then the image URL's that are referenced in your active listings would need to be edited to point to...
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Re: HTML Codes for template
Hi, That appears to be one of the stock Auctiva templates, the Curly Black on Black. If you use the "Customize an Auctiva Template" on the LISTINGS tab page, that will take you to the template editor, where you can modify (or copy) the template code to your own HTML editor for changes. I copied the code to the practicewriter site, so you can get best assistance with changes from the Forum. http://practicewriter.com/vu/?55F95 I also see a possible bug in the template. Color #666 isn't...
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Re: HTML Codes for template
Hi guys, I did make the Curly templates, so I'll try and help where I can. Please understand that if I don't, it may be due to another little project . I'm actually not seeing any problems with the headings getting #666 applied to them. As for the missing table, what I'm seeing you added is a table with class acttbl. That actually gets added dynamically when a listing is created. So while the code you see in the template editor does not have it, if you view the source of the template preview...
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Re: HTML Codes for template
Ah, ok, I see what you're saying now. Here is an updated take, the chief difference being that the description section is wrapped in a div with class "section_desc". <div class="section_desc"> <h2 id="desc"><span></span>Description</h2> [DESCRIPTION_AND_IMAGES] </div> http://practicewriter.com/vu/?56280 That class is normally in the template, but doesn't seem to make it through in the customization editor.
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Re: Category # not recognized?
Hi redeyeart, Thanks for helping to bring this issue to our attention. The behavior you have described is occurring due to a known issue with our system that affects some Power Sports categories within eBay Motors. This issue is expected to be resolved as part of our next major site update, which should take place around 2/16/09. If you want to get these listings posted in the interim, I recommend posting them through eBay's "Sell your Item" form (as much as I dislike having to make that...