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Tiffany K. Edmonds
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Frances Stewart
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Generally Speaking
Happy Holidays, everyone! We wish you Peace, Love, Joy, and Time to relax and appreciate them.
December is a major shopping time for us no matter how we try to keep it simple. And, as long as others are shopping, why shouldn't they be shopping on your website?
AnyBackPage is proud to bring you the nitty-gritty of ecommerce on your
website using FrontPage. Our past articles have gone into many aspects of it,
but this time, you are going to be thrilled with our FrontPage take on eBay!!
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Take a minute and download the very SPECIAL holiday email stationery ABP has
created just for you at: FrontPage Stationary
(SECRET: Coming in the March Issue – How to create your Email Stationery in
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A very happy birthday to all those born in the oh-so-special month of December:
Anne Sharpe
Rhonda Bartlett
Joy Jacobs
Patricia Lane
Diane Swearingen
Janetta Smith
Cheryl Wise
Dawn James
JT Trusedell
Tom Gahagan
Ali Closertou
Judith
Merry V. Bush
Mary Suski
Please note this is original sign-up information ~ Joy, would you like to
change your name to Brisbane? Seems to these editors that you DID. Hahaha Joy
was last year's winner of the fantastic FrontFlash 1.3. A FrontPage 2000
Addin by XZAKT Media, developed by Andrew Brisbane.
Your editors are thrilled that the choice of this winner is simply a draw -
it would be so difficult to choose any other way. What a list of friends we
have here in December. Most of you added so much to our birthday party,
Cheryl has contributed to our Tips and Articles, Ann was one of our first
Virtual Interviews, and Patricia is the grandmother of the tiniest FrontPage
Geek, Autumn.
And the winner of the draw is Anne Sharpe!
Congratulations, Anne. You have won a prize Theme from PixelMill.
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Save time and money: PixelMill helps site builders develop their Microsoft
FrontPage website by providing a wide array of high-quality FrontPage themes
and templates from independent artists and theme designers. Find the right
image and jump-start the development of your next website with PixelMill.
Thank you, PixelMill and Thank you to everyone who participated in our
birthday registration!
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IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!
Take a minute and update the copyright info on your sites (including that
copyright meta tag). YES! It only takes a minute with TP_ErrOmi by Tom Price
– free download. http://anyfrontpage.com/rd/tpe.htm
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Dec. 8 — Microsoft will retire several of its products next week, including
SQL Server 7, Office XP Developer, Windows 98, and a number of Office
2000-related tools and patches., to comply with a court order related to its
dispute with Sun Microsystems over Java.
http://msnbc.com/news/1002736.asp?0cv=CB20
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Main Article
USING EBAY WITH FRONTPAGE
By Amy Reedy and Tina Clarke
Using FrontPage with EBay. The layout of an auction listing is very important. Just as when designing your WebPages, you want clear precise pictures, and an "eye friendly" environment, you want your auction page to maximize your "real estate" and hold the viewers’ attention long enough to want to buy your widget. EBay did a study, and found that buyers like the pictures on the left and the description on the right.
In FrontPage, make a new page and insert a table with two columns. Now you have the start of your layout.
NOTE: Do NOT use any FrontPage Bots in the creation of your template. They won't work on eBay because it does not have FrontPage Server Extensions installed.
I'm assuming you've photographed your widget and have made the picture nice and viewable. (Those of you with flat screens, do not darken your pictures, because those of us without the latest technology do not have such nice bright screens) . Photos should be resized to no wider than 500 pixels, and the height will be
proportionate. You are also going to publish/FTP that photo to your own web space.
NOTE: Tripod and geocities do not let you use them to host eBay photo's.
OK, back to your layout. On the left hand Column, insert your photos/ Remember to change the relative URL's to absolute URL's, e.g. www.yourdomain.com/yourphoto.jpg . You can either do this in HTML view, or right click a picture and choose 'Picture Properties' and in the general tab where it says 'Picture Source', change this to the URL of your picture. Include a description of the photo under 'Alternative representations' and press OK. Then, on the right hand column write your description. Use a very friendly font, preferably
sans serif, and degrade the font; for example, Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif. Use a friendly color, such as: light background and dark font color (personally I hate Bright Yellow with Bright Pink writing, and I'll hit the back button before I even think about your widget). Don't forget to add your TOS, links to your email for questions, and links to your store for additional widgets (your eBay store, eBay does not allow 3rd party links in the auction, and will pull your auction quicker than you can say I'LL BUY IT!! Now, review your page, is anything moving?? It is? Well take it off now!! Nothing is more irritating than shopping and having a page with items bouncing, snowflakes falling, and words scrolling around. Sure, its great you know how to do that cute little stuff. Save it for the page about your dog.
OK, do you have more of that widget? Good, put them in your eBay store for about $10 more than you want your auction to end at. Create links in this auction to those store listings with the nice little words made just for impatient people like me: "Don't want to wait for the auction to end? Click here to buy it now from my store". There now, for people who just don't have seven days to wait for that awesome little widget they can BIN and be happy.
Now you have a really pretty auction page laid out. Go to 'Save As', and save it as a template by clicking the 'Save as type' drop down arrow, and selecting 'FrontPage Template'. Then click 'Save”. For all your other widgets, you just switch out the pic's and the description and everything else is all set. When you go to eBay
to list that cool little widget, you will fill out the “sell your item” form, and when you get to the big box that says "DESCRIPTION" html allowed, you will go to your saved page, go to HTML view, right click, and choose 'Select all' . Then right click again and choose 'Copy'. Next, switch back to eBay and paste that your content.
Continue filling out your eBay form and go to preview. Check it out, did it work?? Yes!!! Great, OH you in the corner, it didn't work???? OK, go back and be sure your pictures have absolute URL's, because otherwise, it just won't work. There, you fixed it. Check your preview again. YIPPEE it worked, and now you will
officially spend the next seven days checking your auction approximately every 15 minutes to see if anyone bid.
Ed Note - There is more to this article which you can find in the archives on the yahoo interface after joining AnyFrontPage Bytes.
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