Manipulating lower part of templates when pictures are on right or left sides

Well, I know what you're asking to do...and in order to do it...you need to get in there and change the way the TABLEs are configured in the template that you are using.

Paste something up into the PracticeBoard and I'll have a look at it...

Or, in the TABLE definitions, simply change the border="0" to something linke border="5" so you can "see" where the actual "borders" of the tables in the HTML you have are falling. (You'll put the borders back to 0 after you get the look you want...)

Then you can determine if you simply need to change the COLSPAN value for a particular table row, or if you need to actually make a whole new table and redefine it's width, etc...

Mike

I'm kind of computer illiterate. How would I go about doing that so the WHOLE preview is shown? I am only able to figure out where the HTML is for the "description" part of it. I want to show you the whole listing but I am not sure where the HTML for the entire thing is located.

Yeah...

Actually, I think i got it! Here you go.

http://www.practiceboard.com/?4784314

Getting the HTML from the entire preview is too much...

What you want to do is SAVE the listing. Then on the Saved Listings Tab, select the Listing and then pick the GET HTML option.

Then paste that into PracticeBoard...

Mike

OKAY! I did it, please help! THanks. follow this link.

http://www.practiceboard.com/?4808566

Okay...

It's a bunch of work...but I'll see how much time I have to invest into in...

Mike

Is there anyone who HAS enough time to help me out with this? It's actually the only thing holding me back from listing the 100's of items I have waiting to be listed! I just want to get the template finished so I can open the store Someone please let me know! Even if it's just a link to a site with a bunch of HTML help, anything Is helpful as of right now. Thanks a ton, everyone.

Do I have to offer someone money? haha. It doesn't seem like it would take too long to do what I want to do. It's only ONE THING. If I knew at all how to do it, or even where to FIGURE OUT how to do it (hint, hint), I would do it myself, but I have not a clue i'm afraid. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi. Try changing your templet...to show 3 photos in a row instead of two.

It is a matter of redoing the tables and its very time consuming - at least for me it is. I hate messing with tables.

I'm better off doing things from scratch then trying to "fix" something that isn't mine. I do have my hands full with a few projects on the table otherwise I might give it a try but I just don't have the extra time right now.

Sorry

Here's what I can offer you:
http://www.practiceboard.com/?4840672

I went and changed all the border="0" to a 10 so you can see how the tables work and why the part you want to move over isn't. If you can dig through the code and end the table after the description and start a new one for the shipping it should fall where you want it to.

The trick is getting all the correct tags, miss one and it throws the whole page off!

I would edit the otiginal template and not one you already have info put into it. Hope that helps some

Well, not only did you try, you taught me something!!! That's more than I could have asked for. Check out my progress and let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions. I messed around with the template on frontpage, so I don't know if the template itself is usable anymore (or even considered a template!), but I guess my next step is making what I've got now programmable to the point of just putting in the name, condition, and set of the card, and pressing "list"! Let me know what you think and how I would go about making it a usable template. Thanks!

Here's the practiceboard link:
http://www.practiceboard.com/?4852897

Ahhh! I noticed right after I posted it that all the pictures are gone... I have no idea what happened.

You did it, you figured out the tables

The images are not showing because they are on your computer - you need to upload them and then put the URL in its place.

clicktosup_ffffff.gif would need to be hosted online either on Auctiva or another server but it needs to be on the web in order for others to see it.

You are doing good, keep at it - its the best way to learn

And don't forget to set those borders back to "0" so it looks nice again!

Actually all of the pictures are hosted on auctiva. hmmm... It seems like some kind of problem with the frontpage, because I can copy/past the HTML from auctiva and practiceboard (visa/versa) and nothing happens, but when I paste into frontpage, and then copy/paste FROM frontpage to practiceboard, the pictures and everything else don't show up. Any suggestions?

Yeah, don't use frontpage!

I know not what you wanted to hear but they are known for messing up the code with extra garbage. Try a free HTML editor, you will be better off.

Google even has one now

SSo there are free editors that are better than frontpage? Is there one that I can download to my computer?

I would recommend CoffeeCup- Free Editor for a good free HTML editor. There are others you may find by CLICKING HERE.

I practically finished my template and everything on it today, and now that I am trying to get the HTML off of frontpage, all the pictures are just NOT showing up, and I don't know what the problem is. They look fine while inside frontpage, and all the hyperlinks work, too, but when I try to copy the HTML to say, auctiva's listing description part of listing your item, it messes up. Any suggestions on what I can do now that I've already went too far with frontpage? How can I move the listing from frontpage to auctiva without screwing it up?

I also noticed now, that in frontpage, and a lot of HTML editors, they change the name of your picture after you save it, and reopen it. All the names of your pictures have been cut off, and they no longer have a URL, just a (example) src="12345678.jpg"

I've never used Frontpage so I'm of no help. I just know from other people telling me to avoid it and that it changes your code.

Sorry I can't be of more help

I recommend that you open "NotePad" a software program that comes with your windows operating system it will not change any of your html when saving. Paste all the HTML into a blank document.

Now for the part that will take a bit to change. Everytime you see the code <img src=""> in your code, the stuff in the quotes represents the "address" for that image. The address is what tells the computer where to go to find the image and place it on the screen for viewing. If this address is not 100% complete then the image will not display! If the images are appearing fine on your computer and they look something like <img- src="someimage.jpg"> (*note-the extra dash between "img" and "src" is there so this editor will not change it into code and display a brokien image!) then that means the image is on your computer. If the address where something like <img- src="http://www.somesite.com/someimage.jpg"> then that would mean the image was on some server where everyone would be able to see the image. Long story short the addresses for your images need to be complete and they need to be hosted on a server where everyone can see them. You will need to have your images on a server, if you already do then some of the work is done.

You now need to locate those images you wish to use on the server where they are located, if you have them hosted with auctiva, go to the image tab, click on the link "Manage Images" and find one of the images that you are going to use. Just to the right of the thumbnail for the image you will find the name of the image as it was when it came off of your computer, just below that you will find the "URL" or "address" for that image. You will then copy the "URL", which should look like: " http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/0/6/4/8/9/webimg/1691824_o.jpg". Now go back to your HTML in the notepad file that you created and find the <img src> where you will replace the small "address" with the complete address that you just copied. Do this for all images! Save the notepad document and make sure to save it as either a .html file or just a .txt file.

You may copy all the html file from here and paste it into the appropriate spot at auctiva. There might be one slight problem and that is you have already put this into "FrontPage" and that is a Microsoft product that has a reputation for adding code that is not needed or desired by the user or other programs such as the Editor that you are using at Auctiva. You may end up with some undesirable effects. If this happens an alternative you have is to delete the code then click on the "Paste from Word" button on the editor (look for a yellow button that has a "W" on it). Follow the instructions here. Check out the results and get back to us.

Best of Luck

I have had problems copying from Frontpage to Turbolister. Sometimes it changes the picture URL to a just a partial version of the URL. Make sure your URL is complete .You may have to copy/paste it from your picture hosting service into the HTML.Otherwise I like using Frontpage.