Template Width Help

Can you post an item number so we can take a look at what it is doing?

item 160113575654

Hi I hope that helps I have been messing with the html codes with out much luck...actually it's quite frustrating. lol
Thanks

Hi I have same problem with 3 listings left a thread a week ago with item numbers still look the same. No response yet . Feel like pulling listing and relist to get it right but will cost more money. All other listing turned out ok why these.
sunyfl

That item number looks fine to me but then I am on a 19" screen with a 1080x1284 res.

It could be the images as well. The bigger the images - the wider it will stretch things.
Try keeping them one below the other instead of side by side.

When I was having that problem it was because the width of some of my images was more than 640 pixels. Try editing them in Auctiva's editor before adding them to your template.

2purrcats

Hi Srcsweet2- Your listing looks good to me too. My monitor is 17", 1280x1024. AngelsBlue's idea of experimenting with image placement sounds good to me.

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Originally posted by 2purrcats:
When I was having that problem it was because the width of some of my images was more than 640 pixels. Try editing them in Auctiva's editor before adding them to your template.

2purrcats

Just a thought- Regardless of your original image size, Auctiva's template will display it at 400x300 anyway(except when images are inserted manually into the description), so I'm not sure you would want to reduce it to a smaller size. If you do then your supersized image (which is your saved image) will be small- not what you want. You want a big, impressive supersized pic.

ninth_wave,

You're probably right. However, I went back and looked at some of my listings where I feel sure I reduced the width of some of the photos, and they still super-size fine. Maybe not as Super? I can't tell. But they're still bigger than the regular pics.

Anyway, I think it resolved the problem of having to scroll across the screen to read the description - and I usually use photos on the top and left.

Who knows?? I get lost!

2purrcats

Thanks all I am going to keep an eye on my photo sizes I suspect that was adding to my "wide" pages. If only I could slim down other things in my life with a click of the mouse....

I am having the same problem! Talk about frustrating. I dont know html or anything it seems like.Any way I edited my pictures to what Auctiva recomended me to do, Edited my description (re-wrote it all) and saved it.(using the enter button whenever I could but still trying to make my description as I want it to look,hours) and saved and it was like I wasted a whole day. I really like Auctiva but I really need some help here. Thanks.

Now that sounds like what I went thru! If I also might add I so beautifully managed to mangle to template that it looked like someone drew it with a sharpy ... perhaps a 1 year old! LOL

I made my pictures smaller and then listed them on the top and left instead of paired and that seemed to help I tried for hours to make my own template but man that is just no fun!

I think pairing the pics is a definite problem! Keep it simple and keep them single!

2purrcats

I am not sure where all these problems are coming from, as I seem to have been spared. I don't know HTML, so I always just use the "design editor" mode, rather than the "text" mode when working on the description or the seller details, and I've never had a listing come out too wide, regardless of how I configured my pictures to display in the template.

Could low screen resolutions be part of the problem? Mine is a 17" monitor with 1280x1024 res.

Auctiva seems to have designed it all to work smoothly using the design editors. It appears that folks designing with HTML are having a lot of problems. I guess ignorance has its benefits. Just wait until I learn HTML then I can join the folks with problems. Can't wait.

HTML drives me crazy, so I avoid it whenever possible. I've never had to resort to using it on Auctiva (Thanks you, Auctiva!!)

I use the same resolution as you, ninth_wave: 1280 x 1024 with an 18" monitor.

I don't have time to redesign templates and such, so I just go with the ones Auctiva provides!

2purrcats

Welllll my monitor can't handle that!!!!!! let me tell you...neither can my eyes..LOL I did increase it a bit... it's really kind of frustrating I think perhaps different templates have different properties, AKA different proplems ...either those open tables we hear about or I think even the picture placement on the actual pages. The acual "layout" being on top of the "text and not in line with the text moving everything over. That is just my opion.

You're probably right, Srcsweet2!

2purrcats

Hi Srcsweet2 -

I could never get this one to "break". It looked fine to me at 800x600 and on up.

The one thing I can tell you is that in your code you have these &n b s p and templates hate those

For any other listings that you have in question (since the one you posted is closed) check your code for those rascals. There are a couple of other things in your description that could be the problem too but that is the best place to start.

Here are instructions for what to do to revise after you have made an HTML change:

1) Locate your listing in your Saved Listings folder, make any necessary changes, and save.
2) Check the box next to your updated listing in your Saved Listings folder and click the “Get HTML” button.
3) Copy the HTML in the popup box.
4) Locate the item on eBay and click the "Revise Item" button.
5) Click "Edit Description" then click the "Enter your own HTML" tab.
6) Paste the copied HTML in place of what's there and save your changes.

Might I also suggest pasting your code in Notepad or www.practiceboard.com to do your changes so nothing interferes or adds anything to your code.

Happy Listing!
Cara

I have this problem to. One is sized to fit page, the rest are wide. I did not use HTML (about which I know nothing) but the standard page.