How do you switch bg colors and add sounds?

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whole page background color

Do you mean ALL of the eBay page, or just your description?

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adding sound to listings

Not a good idea! Unless you insert the soundwave as OFF default, and allow the looker to turn it on.

----don't know how to add it!!!

oooh, I hate it when a listing starts playing tunes and flicking an image around my display

choo~~, you and 99.99% of all computer uses!

Scares the bejebus out'a me.

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I hate it when a listing starts playing tunes and flicking an image around my display

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whole page background color

I'm sure the entire page of the template is what is meant. Somebody please answer, because I have often wondered how to do this myself.

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I hate it when a listing starts playing tunes

Ditto on the sounds. Think about it - you're sitting there at work, checking out the lingerie listings (for your wife of course), wondering why it's taking so long to download, when all of a sudden this MP3 track starts blaring, you're frantically reaching for the volume control knob, everybody starts to stare, your boss walks in, they all see the screen full of ladies "intimates"..... NO SALE!

If it is FULL PAGE background, that is an eBay NO-NO! You cannot change anything on the main eBay listing page. The only things you are allowed to alter are between the 'begin description''end description' tags.

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Originally posted by ninth_wave:
I'm sure the entire page of the template is what is meant.

Kryptoknight, and myself were asking how to change the backround color of the entire TEMPLATE (as opposed to just the backround of the text or headings). We did not mean the entire page, i.e. the area outside the template as well. There must be a way because some standard Auctiva templates already have completely non-white backrounds.

On ebay's "revise your listing" page, the description box includes the entire template, not just the "description" portion of the template. Perhaps this semantic confusion is the cause of our seeming lack of agreement.

Yep, confusion is rampant using text! That's why I asked originally.

Is this your own template or one of Auctiva's?

The colour change is down with bgcolor coding, and sometimes tables. Depending on how complex your template is.

You can grab the code for an auctiva template that has a coloured background, and change the numbers.

I guess we are just looking for an "HTML dummy" way of getting the job done, i.e. a "design editor" solution that doesn't exist. Looks like we need to hit the books and get a little more code capable huh?

Show me your template that you're using. Post the code on practiceboard.com and put the link here.

I'll look at it for you.

OR!!!!

Grab the code from this page:colored background template! and play with it!

Thanks for the link cotmyey, you have just ratcheted my code confidence up another notch!

every little bit helps! eh!

Have fun, and hope it works for you.

I think we're thinking a little too complex here. All I'm talking about is changing the background color in the description from white to another color. There need be no template. Just the background. For example, for seasonal--changing the background to black and the text to orange. (just an example) or red on a blue background. When you start adding templates, I know that can alter the colors because of blending, and will take some playing around with it. But simple basic colors of one color on one background should be easy, right? I just don't know how.

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There need be no template

You need standard table coding to change the background default~white. That means using a basic template.

If you want your pictures to have the same background, you need a more involved html template with the proper coding for images. Otherwise just your description(words) will have the coloured background.

Using templates is very easy,
IF you read/set-up/do things in the proper order.

You could have 4 'seasonal' templates, do 4 basic listings---save them, then 'create similar' from them.