Funky Monk

Thanks for all your help. I now at least understand eBay better and can advise my customer on the options available to them and I can be more confident.

I've signed up on their forum now so hopefully that will be useful. I got confused by all the different 'bits' of an eBay store. Another web developer I saw on the Internet talks about A Custom Store Front Page, A Custom "Me" Page and a A Custom Store Listing Template. ********************************************************************************* Quick update - I have just found out that my customer has a 'Basic' store. As far I can see all there is under Store Design in their store is options to upload a customised logo, which I can do, plus change colours and fonts. I can't see any place to upload custom HTML code. Does this mean that they would have to upgrade to a higher, more expensive store in order to get a customised design???

Thanks. I know I can create a web site, whether by WYISWYG or hand coding, but I guess the issue is that I have no idea what it would look like on an eBay store unless I go down the line of starting my own eBay store so that I can log in and test it out. $15.95 per month just so that I can use it as a test site for each template I develop seems quite a lot when you consider all my other costs as a freelancer. Is there something equivalent to the PayPal Sandbox where you can test out designs and see how they look as if they were a live eBay store???

Thanks. Works fine now. Don't quite know why I put that in there, just didn't spot it.

Title says it all. The site can be seen here. I am using the following CSS: body { background-color: #666; color: #000; font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0; /* Sets the margin properties for an element using shorthand notation (top, right, bottom, left) */ padding: 0; /* Sets the padding properties for an element using shorthand notation (top, right, bottom, left) */ text-align: center; float: right; } #outerWrapper { background-color: #fff; margin: 0 auto 0 auto; /* Sets the margin properties for an element using shorthand notation (top, right, bottom, left) */ text-align: left; /* Redefines the text alignment defined by the body element. */ width: 960px; } #outerWrapper #logo-area { background-color: #FFF; height: 108px; width: 960px; background-repeat: no-repeat; } #outerWrapper #header { background-color: #ddd; border-bottom: solid 1px #666; /* Sets the bottom border properties for an element using shorthand notation */ font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold; height: 150px; line-height: 15px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; /* Sets the padding properties for an element using shorthand notation (top, right, bottom, left) */ } #outerWrapper #header_nav { float: right; height: 50px; width: 100px; } #outerWrapper #contentWrapper { margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px; margin-top: 30px; overflow: hidden; } There's more but I think that's the relevant bits.

Thanks for the info so far. I didn't realise it was so hard. Can't even find a simple guide to eBay design anywhere.

Ok, Gareth. Tell me more. What exactly is different then? Surely you can design your site as usual and then add the code to the ebay page? Maybe not, but I'm just totally new to designing for eBay.

I have recently been asked to design an Ebay store template for an existing customer of mine. This is a new area to me and don't know where to start. I can design a site using Dreamweaver as usual but then don't know what code or any special requirements there are for displaying on ebay. How to do test a template?