| For many ebay sellers it makes sense to use auction | | | | WYSIWYG HTML editor. I personally love the |
| templates to list their items, instead of having no design | | | | 'Composer' program from Netscape. It's free and has |
| at all. Using a pre-designed ebay auction template | | | | many features that only expensive HTML editor |
| allows you to present your product in a professional | | | | programs offer. The big advantage of designing your |
| way. In fact, recent research has shown that visitors | | | | auction listing offline is that you have full control on the |
| stay longer on a well designed website compared to | | | | design process. I had many ugly looking auction sites, |
| amateurish looking one. Well, this very same principle it | | | | because I wanted to save time and use Internet |
| also true for your eBay auction listing. The better your | | | | Explorer, logged into my eBay account and tried to list |
| ebay auction listing looks, the longer they stay on your | | | | an item online - 'on-the-fly'. Big mistake! In fact, it took |
| site and the greater is the chance that they place a bit. | | | | longer and the outcome was not convincing at all. I |
| Watch your own buying behaviour when you buy | | | | then decided to design the auction listing 'offline' first. I |
| something on eBay. You'll be surprised why you placed | | | | have used several HTML editor programs before but |
| a bid on a particular item. | | | | after I have tried Netscape 'Composer' I haven't looked |
| Another big advantage of using ebay auction | | | | back to any other HTML editor. When I am happy with |
| templates is, that even an absolute beginner and eBay | | | | the site, I just save the source code to my hard disk |
| newbie can use it and launch professional eBay | | | | and I can always re-use this template. Then you simply |
| auction listing instantly. Furthermore, you can re-use the | | | | copy and paste the source code into the 'eBay |
| same template over and over again. You can just add | | | | description' box when you list your item. It's just very |
| the text and description, upload the new pictures, make | | | | easy... |
| a link to the pictures in your new auction listing and you | | | | There are thousands of ebay auction sites and even |
| are ready to go. The best thing is that you can leave | | | | though there may be more than one ebay auction |
| other details, like contact information, shipping details, | | | | listing using the pre-designed auction template you |
| company policy, payment instruction and a link to your | | | | choose, the likelihood of a visitor and potential buyer |
| 'about me' page all in place. There is no need for you | | | | seeing both sites is not great. Every ebay auction site |
| to re-write it. This saves you precious time. You don't | | | | is unique in the products it presents. EBay auction |
| need to know a lot of HTML. In fact modifying existing | | | | templates present your item quickly and professionally |
| auction templates is easy as 1-2-3: | | | | without the hassle of designing an eBay auction listing |
| You read the template file into your preferred | | | | from scratch. |