template help please

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by citroen999, Nov 21, 2007.

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  1. #1
    hi

    i am trying to make an ebay template for a friend of mine.. i am a complete newb but have managed to get quite far and i seem to be stuck at the final hurdle. :(

    I have downloaded a template from www.boxedart.com, made the changes to the text in photoshop, i have left the layout as it was. I have then put the finished psd through imageready to create an index.html and images. Then i have uploaded index file and images to the ftp/host account, the template works fine and can be seen on the web. But when i try to put it in to turbolister/ebay we have problems, the layout can be seen but no images.

    the code that appears turbolister looks different to another template in there that i have seen.

    here is an example of the top half of the code

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <title>ebay trial</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <!-- ImageReady Styles (ebay trial.psd) -->
    <style type="text/css">
    <!--

    #Table_01 {
    position:absolute;
    left:0px;
    top:0px;
    width:780px;
    height:900px;


    then it turns into this...

    -->
    </style>
    <!-- End ImageReady Styles -->
    </head>
    <body style="background-color:#FFFFFF;">
    <!-- ImageReady Slices (ebay trial.psd) -->
    <div id="Table_01">
    <div id="EBAYTRIAL-01_">
    <img id="EBAYTRIAL_01" src="images/EBAYTRIAL_01.jpg" width="780" height="20" alt="" />
    </div>
    <div id="EBAYTRIAL-02_">
    <img id="EBAYTRIAL_02" src="images/EBAYTRIAL_02.jpg" width="543" height="170" alt="" />
    </div>


    i have looked at a friends different ebay template code via turbolister and it looks like this

    <TABLE cellSpacing=28 cellPadding=0 width="100%">
    <TBODY>
    <TR>
    <TD vAlign=top>
    <CENTER>
    <TABLE height=100 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=768>
    <TBODY>
    <TR>
    <TD vAlign=top width=9 background=http://www.host-name/ebay2/shadowl.gif><IMG height=9 src="http://host-name/ebay2/shadowl.gif" width=9></TD>
    <TD vAlign=top width=750>
    <TABLE height=100 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=750>
    <TBODY>
    <TR>
    <TD width=750 colSpan=3 height=92><IMG height=92 src="http://host-name/ebay2/header.gif" width=750></TD></TR>
    <TR>
    <TD vAlign=top width=1 background=http://host-name/ebay2/linev.gif><IMG height=5 src="http://host-name/ebay2/linev.gif" width=1></TD>

    i can see that i dont have the urls for the images, i have tried that but nothing happens. I can see the div are in the my template but not in the one that is already on ebay.

    but any ideas on what to do next as i am going around in circles? :confused:
     
    citroen999, Nov 21, 2007 IP
  2. KaniGT5

    KaniGT5 Active Member

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    Make sure that you are using the FULL address to the image, and make sure subfolders/image names are CaSe SenSiTiVe, as it REALLY does matter.

    Thats about as much insight as I can give you from what I see here.
     
    KaniGT5, Nov 21, 2007 IP
  3. citroen999

    citroen999 Peon

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    hi i have tried the full address but that did not work..

    the 2 html codes look different to me but i am a complete novice.

    The code for the template i have made has this through out the code

    div id="EBAYTRIAL-01_">
    <img id="EBAYTRIAL_01" src="images/EBAYTRIAL_01.jpg" width="780" height="20" alt="" />
    </div>


    but a template already in use with ebay looks like this

    <TBODY>
    <TR>
    <TD vAlign=top width=9 background=http://www.host-name/ebay2/shadowl.gif><IMG height=9 src="http://host-name/ebay2/shadowl.gif" width=9></TD>

    the 1st code seem to have div id running all through it where as the ebay has TD, TR and also <p>

    i'm no html expert but point me in the right direct and i might be able to figure it out ;)

    thanks
     
    citroen999, Nov 22, 2007 IP
  4. KaniGT5

    KaniGT5 Active Member

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    the first one, imageready is defining a div with the specific image, in the second one, they are using tables, and it also looks as if the first image is set as a bg on that one.

    Are the images just broken? Maybe your webhost wont allow linking to images like that, some people dont.
     
    KaniGT5, Nov 22, 2007 IP
  5. citroen999

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    ok..

    now managed to insert all the right urls using notepad :) (what a wonderful tool "replace all" option is in notepad :D ) The images now show up in ebay turbolister.

    Next question. Why cant i alter any text using the designer view within turbolister. Its as though the original template psd has been cut into bits and put back together but its not allowing any text changes.

    thanks
     
    citroen999, Nov 22, 2007 IP