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Clic*Pic
Free program Compresses images and Creates a Clickable Photo Gallery

Drop your files into the program and it will automatically resize and compress your images, create thumbnails, and make a click-gallery. You may also zoom or crop the photos as needed. No more white space! Upload the new pictures to your picture host, and add the gallery HTML code to your auction or web page. Fast and simple! FREE non-expiring limited version includes a 30-day trial of extended features. Look here.

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FREE program Helps you find lost HTML Tags

Download this tiny program and run your HTML code through it. You will get a formatted listing and report of mismatched tags to help you clean up your web page problems. Look here. Instructions here.

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Rainbow
FREE program converts colors to HTML codes, and codes to colors.

Download this tiny program and have fingertip access to HTML color codes from your desktop. Pick colors from your photos or from the color palette. Look here.

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TagBot
FREE program Automates Auction Templates.

This program gives you plain data-entry fields to make it easier to add content to your custom auction template without sifting through codes. TagBot has a set of built-in templates for users who just want easy-to-use templates. The program also allows you to mark up your own templates to automate future changes. Designer-level features too. Look here.

Bonus Features include 2 styles of cross-sell scroll-galleries with captions.

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Online Utilities

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Click-Gallery

ClicPic Online uses your presized and hosted images to quickly create photo gallery code. Many formats. Click this one - it works!

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Pretty Borders

Make pretty auction borders. Since you create them, no two are alike. Need more? try...

Borders

Pretty Borders Plus!

Make a complete auction template with Pretty Borders Plus!

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Clicky Buttons

Create your own clickable buttons and text menus. No buttons or image hosting required, since the basic buttons use plain text. The text can be encoded to avoid keyword-spamming, so you can safely use them in your auctions. Use the picture option to convert your thumbnails into a cross-sell gallery.

Click

These

Buttons

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Colors & Blends

This is the complete list of Internet colors and names, and you will also find a nifty color blending tool for in-between colors and for creating gradient borders.

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ZippyPractice

Practice away at your HTML. Use the starter codes and HTML buttons to jumpstart your template code. Handy find/replace function and color palette for modifying templates. Built in code scanner can help locate some code problems. Preview and save your code to a file on your own computer.

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The Shadow

Create drop-shadows for your self-hosted images using HTML. No need to photoshop your images. The color tool blends your shadows into your page color. Totally cool!

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Online Editor

Don't have access to eBay's fancy listing editor? This online WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor looks a lot like eBay's editor or a standard "Word" editor. Use it to make pretty listings from scratch or to add pictures and change text in your premade templates. The editor will generate the HTML code for you.

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X*Sell Gallery

Create a scrolling cross-sell gallery for your auctions or web page. Enter your auction numbers to automatically create a gallery, or use your own thumbnails and links for your store categories.

xsellx

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Designer Menu Maker

Quickly create complex dropdown or flyout menus. Paste your spreadsheet data or use the input boxes to add links and captions for your menu.

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Popup Viewer

Click your thumbnails to open larger photos in a Popup Window within your auction page. The captioned window may be dragged around, and the photo can be zoomed larger or smaller for comfortable viewing.

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Image Mapper

Add clickable areas to an image to create menus and navigation bars. Simple tool creates a clickable map from your existing online image. There are three clickable areas on this image.

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Image Magnifier

Were there times you wished you could magnify those tiny objects like coins and pins? Your customers may feel the same way. Mouse over image to see the magnifier.

http://members.ebay.com/ws2/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=shipscript#grids

Charts & Tables

Quickly generate "size" and "specification" charts with any colors and borders.

RATES	A	B	C
color	red	green	blue
weight	1	2	3

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Blog Styler

Have you started an eBay Blog? Did you know you can customize its appearance with CSS? The online Blog Styler will automatically generate the code for beginners and designers alike.

eBay Blogs will close Oct 31, 2009

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ArtRoom

Create a virtual room to hang your art and paintings in an eBay auction. Rearrange a room full of elements and change the wall colors. Your artwork will be scaled to fit the room.

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Neat Stuff
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Q*sell Gallery

Create a QuickSell grid from your most recent auctions for your blog or website. Or use the non-keyword spamming version for your auction or eBay store.

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Quick Linker

Don't know the codes for making links? This tool will make the code and show you all the different ways. Just add your destination URL and your prompt text or thumbnail.

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Quick Buttons

Make pretty CSS Quicky Buttons for many eBay destinations. Just add your eBay ID or store name and choose your style and color. Use the buttons on auctions, blogs, and websites.

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GridArray

Item: bambi
type: china

Item: ducks
type: ceramic

Convert spreadsheet data and images into a tidy array of boxes. Makes a great display of your product lineup.

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Carousel Spinner

Display a 360° view of your item that spins when moused over. Shoot eight sides of your item and host the photos online. This tool will create the code to rotate through your photos.

http://members.ebay.com/ws2/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=shipscript#tabtops

TabTop

Automatically make tabbed content arranged in index card format. Select any color and an optional tab shape.

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ZippySlots

Turn your template into a form filler by tagging your code with ZippySlots. The tool will create right there in your template, making it a snap to update template content. Save and use the created ZippySlots template on your own desktop, online or offline. Perfect for both designers and sellers.

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Copy-Not

No-Right-Click script for image protection won't interfere with navigation. Concho_softie's script can be added to the bottom of your auction to protect images hosted on eBay or on your own image host.

TransGif

Replace your self-hosted image code in your description with a simple coverup code.

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ConchosCorners

Make rounded corner images at any color or size to match your template.

HTMLDraw™ Lite

Make imageless template corners and tiny icons using only HTML codes.

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Image Extractor

Makes image codes. Dual purpose tool can:
1. Help you find the right URL to use when your image host presents you with too many options.
2. Pull all your images out of a webpage to make it easier to find or replace an image.

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Spam-Free Links

Prevent Keyword Spamming (KWS) in your cross-sell links. These scripts will create text links or drop-down lists that are non-keyword spamming scripts.

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Encryptor

The encryptor will help you hide your source code or can be used to convert text buttons or drop-down lists to non-keyword spamming scripts.

style%3D%22width%3A%20
100%25%3B%22%3E%0A
%20%20%3Ctr%3E%0A%20
%20%3Ctd%3E%0A%0A%3C

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MineMaster

TileCutter

BumpMaze

Hangman

Games

While waiting for the next cool tool, you may want to play one of these online games:

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Link Shrinker for shorter eBay Auction and Guide URLs

Paste a long eBay listing URL or guide URL into the slot and click the button to generate a shorter link.

Go directly to the source of an item description.

http://members.ebay.com/ws2/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=shipscript#practice

HTML Mini Practice (click to open tips)

eBay code
limits (bytes):

Blogs = 30,000
Guides = 20,000

Auctions = 500,000 (SYI3 editor)
Inserts = 1000 (TL2) and 4000 (SYI3)

About ME = 98,304 (96K)
Forums/Groups = 65,534 (64K)

0 Paste or type your HTML code below and click Preview to see the results.

Preview↓

Your results will appear here...

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Resources

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Other Tools

Other useful online or desktop tools.

Thumly Resize/compress images online. Creates several sizes at once. Nothing to download.
IrfanView Free Image editor software for PC. Convert file types, resize, compress, and batch-process photos.
VicMan's Photo Editor Free photo editor and drawing program for PC.
Gimp Photo Editor Free photo editing program for PC, Mac, or Unix.
AuctionRepair.com Handy Online utilities to troubleshoot and fix auction problems.
Copy-not.com Friendlier and better image protection scripts that work on eBay.
BirdDog's Garage Handy online utilities including watermark photos find colors in a photo.
Countdown images tick off the days to holiday events (from Birddog).
Concho's Cross-sell Creates code for clickable photo-links to your other auctions.
grSites.com Free Online Buttons and Backgrounds.
FlamingText.com Free Online ClipArt, Buttons, Animated Gifs.
Internet Explorer FTP Free Internet Explorer has a built in FTP uploader.
Composer Free Netscape Navigator (prior to version 8) has a built in eBay-compatible web authoring tool.
Nvu Free Web page creator, similar to Composer, is a WYSIWYG page authoring tool.
Kompozer Free Web page WYSIWYG page authoring tool, similar to Nvu.

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Auction HTML Help Sites

Whether you are starting from scratch or just need a reminder, find the auction help you need on these HTML Help sites — by eBay sellers for eBay sellers.

bobal A variety of eBay-specific code examples, tips, and tutorials.
eobcards HTML basics for auctions and ME pages. Simple code examples for all kinds of formatting requirements.
ghscruggs Smorgasbord of HTML and auction tips.
GOing1nceLLC How to design a custom eBay storefront.
kcanddi Step-by-step HTML tutorials from basic to CSS.
lesley_feeney eBay help, misc tips, and Me page and Auction template ideas with a feminine touch.
mr_plopster Short and sweet little code snippets and charts.
nktower In-depth tutorials on several aspects of creating an auction page.
tozo121 Step-by-step Html tutorials, HTML editor, auction templates and more.
wizard_mithrandir (the wiz) HTML (some JavaScript) for auction listings and me pages. Basic to complex, step by step.

HowToCreate HTML, CSS, and Javascript tutorials with very readable explanations.
w3schools Complete training for full websites (but remember, an eBay auction is only a subset of a webpage and limits may apply).
Misc Solutions to miscellaneous auction prep questions.

Popular eBay Policies for Auction Templates:

Interference: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/everyone-interference.html
Manipulation: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-javascript.html
Linking: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-links.html
Credits: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/listing-links-credits.html

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HTML Practice Sites

Share your code with others:

Practice your HTML code on these sites:

ZippyPractice.com Practice your HTML. Scan for eBay script errors. Has starter codes and editing tools.
AuctionSupplies.com See your code on an older eBay page.
AuctionTester Check for eBay script errors.

Other Practice sites:

PracticePoster Format and preview your eBay forum posts and signatures.
eBay's Sandbox For developers and designers.

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Templates

Need a Template for your Auction or Web Page?

How to Select a Template

These eBay regulars know the ropes and can design a custom template or logo just for you. More info?

Just Logos

TanyasLogos
TMF Logos

Don't need a custom page? Check out these lists of simple Auction Templates.

And if you're not ready for a template but still need a better looking auction page, check out Templettes - mini auction templates.

Although I don't sell my design services, I do have a few auction templates that were created for the free template lists:

ShipScript's Templates

Need a store design? eBay has published a directory of certified store designers.

Please me to add to these lists.

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Photography & Lighting

Setup and lighting tips and tricks by eBay sellers and professionals.

Bob's Links Several experienced users share their lighting and setups.
Photography for eBay written by eBay (see upper right sidebar on forum)
Photographing a mirror a guide by dainisjg
Camerajim's
Guides to Practical eBay Photography:
- Basic Lighting Techniques
- Jewelry, Flatware and Glassware
A Camera for eBay A cheap and effective camera.

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Lists of Image Hosts

Find free and pay image hosts on these lists.

Learn more about Self-Hosting

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Help Guides

Guides and Reviews by Shipscript:

Auction Help

Guide Help

Blog Help

The Design Basics Workshop Series by shipscript, *zip, and merrygocats: Overview - 10 Design Basics

ShipScript can usually be found on
eBay's US HTML help board
or the AU HTML help board

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Clic*Pic Free program Compresses images and Creates a Clickable Photo Gallery