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