Using custom fonts in regular listing

Hello amish3ts.. the problem with using custom fonts is that they will not be visible to any user that did not also download those fonts onto their computer. If you want your text to look like that to every user, one thing you can do is take a screenshot of the words in that font, then upload those to auctiva and stick those images in your auction description instead of text.

Oh, ok! Thanks a lot for your help! I will consider that!

Tina

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Originally posted by amish3ts:
Hello,
Can anyone tell me if using custom fonts is possible in a regular old listing? I downloaded some really cool fonts, typed an add in Word with it, copied and pasted it into my description window, and.............Times New Roman! Is there something I'm missing? If anyone can help, please email me @ amish3ts@verizon.net. Thanks in advance, and have a Happy Holiday season!

amish3ts

It's a losing battle. For a couple reasons. If you had to download it, chances are nobody that reads your ad is going have it installed on their computer either, so they'll just get the text in the computer's standard font.

There is such a thing called "embedded fonts" where your listing tries to download a font to the customer. Don't even think about it.

If you are using it for a small chunk of text, like a title or something that is part of a template, it's feasible to make it into an image with a Paint-Shopt type program and put a link to it in your template. Here is an example of one that I use: http://img.auctiva.com/imgdata/0/2/2/2/7/6/webimg/1795880_o.jpg

This will work even better when Auctiva starts letting us upload gif's, but for now just use jpegs.

Keep them small and don't try to replace blocks of text of any significant size at all with them. Just keep using Verdana and Arial.

If your like me, which I'm sure you aren't, but if you were, you would be a speed freak, i.e. you'd have panic attacks over whether your customers are leaving without bidding because they get bored waiting for your listing to load. So be advised, that every .jpg, every .gif, every background, every picture...they all slow your listing down. Obviously you want to find a happy medium using only as many as it takes to get lots of bids, and no more.

Using tables to arrange a page (even though eBay itself does it), flashing lights, background music, marquee's, mouse-overs...these things have probably killed more eBay sales than you can possibly imagine. They make your customer wait.

It's just like us guys and our fancy fishing lures: We all got a tacklebox full, but the only thing they ever caught was us.

Best of luck

CB