TURBO LISTER HELP AND INSTRUCTION GUIDE FOR TEMPLATE INSERTION

TURBO LISTER INSTRUCTION GUIDE FOR INSERTING AND USING TEMPLATES

"Did you know you can use Turbo Lister to store your hosted images and use the program as a html editor? "

NOTE YOU MUST BE CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET WHEN USING TURBO LISTER OR YOUR TEMPLATE IMAGES WONT DISPLAY

1.Open your listing page (in notepad) and you should see a lot of unusual script (if you have not seen htlm before this is what it looks like).

2. Go to edit and click "Select All" which should highlight all the script.

3. Go to edit again and click copy.

4. Now open Turbo Lister and carry out all necessary steps to get to item description. TIP you can make up mock listings (i.e. listings that are not going to be uploaded to Ebay) and you can call them anything you like and save them and duplicate them. All you need do is write anything in the item description, pick any categorie, auction fixed price or store item etc selling price and postage. You have to do this or you can't get into the description Builder view. I will give you another tip further on on how you can store your images in Turbo Lister and just copy and paste them easily into templates without using url codes.

5. Open description builder and click on HTML view.

6. Right click and paste your template code (you should see the script code in the window).

7. Click back to Design View mode and you should now see your template which is know ready for you to write your description and other details in. DO NOT delete the text that you see in the image box as this text acts as a guide in the placement of your images which is explained at step 10. You will also notice that I have left a text to show you where to start your descriptions. Don't delete my text before you make your own notations if you want to keep the same text font and colour. Of course you can choose your own text fonts and colours if you choose in the same manner as usual. TIP don't write your item description at this stage instead save document and exit editing mode. Click on document in Turbo Lister files and click duplicate (top left hand corner). You can duplicate several copies and they are ready for use at a later date. You can also provide a file in Turbo Lister and keep your templates there.

NOTE: Some images within templates will not show in design view e.g. flash banners and some animation but can be seen in Preview window. All text and image editing is carried out in design view.

8. Open template document and you can now start playing with your new template.

IMAGE PLACEMENT GUIDE

You can place unlimited images of your sales items in all my templates. Usually unless requested templates are delivered with one image box (if you would like me to add more before delivery just let me know). Unlimited images can be placed in the one box and will display under each other down the page. If you want individual boxes for each item just click on image box in Design view to highlight box (corners of image box will display with little squares) right click copy and then under image box click cursor where you would like to place the second image box and right click paste and a new image box should display. Please note that the image boxes will centre on the page.

9 . To place an image/s into your template you must have an image host who will host your images for you. Free image hosting is available at photobucket and there are others if you can't host your own or you can subscribe to Ebay's picture manager. Just upload and store your images with your image host. Please see Auctiva Listing Guide as you can also copy and paste your prepared listing into Auctiva and use Auctiva as you image host and image insertion.

If NOT using Auctiva features follow the directions below for image insertion .

PHOTO BUCKET :- There are several ways to insert images into my templates from photobucket (or any other image host).

1. Upload all your images to your image host. Make sure you have edited image size before uploading. Suggested image sizes including your gallery image is 400px width.

2. From your image host select your images and copy the direct Link to your clipboard.

Option 1. (This is the easiest) follow step 2 and in design view in Turbo Lister under Other Tasks (situated left hand side) click on change photo hosting select your own web hosting and "The item will have a picture inserted into description" box then click okay a green camera image will appear next to inserts on top of page. NOTE if you have inserted your free Gallery image from your own picture file it will dissappear but you can re-insert it later). Paste your Direct url link you have copied (situated under your image) starting with http....... etc. (Note if you copy the wrong url your image will not appear and all you will see is a red cross where image should be.) Open your template in design view and delete any text written in the image box (image box will diminish in size) place cursor in the middle of box and then click on little green camera (right hand side of inserts ) and a window will appear on the top left hand side of page and paste your image url in where shown. Then click insert. Your image should appear where you marked your cursor. You can only insert one image at a time using this system and if you want mutliple images inserted it may be easier to use option 2. Gallery images are inserted in the same manner however if you want to add a Gallery image from your computer image file click on "Change photo hosting and restore to Ebay picture hosting after you have inserted all your hosted images.

Option 2. Select the image or images urls/s you want to insert from your image host. Copy htlm TAG (<IMG Src=...............etc) or click bottom of page to generate multiple image codes and paste the urls into the template in htlm view as shown below at instruction 10.

10. After you have clicked copy of your image urls from your photo host open your template in HTLM View. Scroll through the HTLM text until you see the following: <!.....................................................................><DELETE THIS TEXT AND REPLACE WITH YOUR IMAGE/S URL/S BETWEEN QUOTES><!................................................................

I have left this text easy to find by writing in capitals and with the dotted lines as a guide.

11. Delete carefully the following text saying< DELETE THIS TEXT AND REPLACE WITH YOUR IMAGE/S> and paste your image url/s between the <> quotes. NOTE it is important that the image url/s are pasted correctly between the quotes or your images will not display. If placed correctly it will appear as example below:

<!...............................................................><IMG src= " <"http://i110.photobucket.your" < font > ><!...................................................>

12. Click onto Design View. If you have pasted your image/s correctly you will see them in the template and they should be displayed in the image box. If your image disdplays but is not within the image frame just left click on the image copy and paste it into the image box. Go back and left click unwanted copy and delete. If you see a red x where your image should be you have not pasted correctly. If this is the case just click cancel and then edit again and your template will restore to it's previous state then redo your pasting.

IMAGE TIPS FOR STORING IMAGES IN TURBO LISTER

TIP You can use Turbo Lister as your image file and store your images there. To do this make up a mock copy as described in section 4. In Design view on the blank description page write a heading (e.g. My Pictures) Now copy and paste <IMG Src=your image>url/s and in htlm view paste your image/s url/s from your clipboard. Your images will appear in design view. How great is that now you are storing your images with easy viewing and accessing without going into your image hosts site to get the urls (remember you must be connected to the internet to view your images and template). You can now save this as a file in Turbo Lister. When you want an image which you have stored in Turbo Lister just open it in design view and left click on the image you want (highlight corners of image) then right click copy then go to your listing and in design view place cursor where you want it and paste it in. This is a quick and easy way to work with your images and their placement in your template without the need to open photobucket or other image host . Try not to store too many images on one page as it can take time downloading. < /font>

Even though you can't upload your about me pages, custom pages, Store Headers and full Shopfronts from Turbo Lister you can use Turbo Lister as a htlm editor and store them in a file there. Just copy the htlm code of the template and paste it in Turbo Listers htlm view and you can view and edit all of these templates and in fact just about any htlm coded template.

To put them into Ebay after editing just copy the htlm code and paste it in the appropriate htlm description area (i.e. about me page, custom page, etc) in Ebay.

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