For those of you who would like to learn how to post images (pictures) in your listings, on your ME page or on the eBay Discussion Boards and Groups, this is for you.
If you have a little experience, you can refer to these Quick Notes.
- You should have already saved the image to your hard drive
- You need to upload that image from your hard drive to where you host your images; such as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or an on-line image hosting site
- You need to know what the URL properties of your image are
- The html coding to post an image is <img src="URL of your image">
- As an example, if you right click on the email mailbox image below and click on "Properties"
You will see on the pop up Properties box what the Address (URL) of this image is
To post this email mailbox image, I would type the following HTML Coding
<img src="http://www.geocities.com/katicksupplies/ebay/email3.jpg">
- For those using Photobucket, it is even easier. You just have to copy the Tag line which is below the images you have uploaded already to Photobucket. If you Left Click your cursor anywhere within the Tag line, it will highlight the entire line. Keep your cursor in the highlighted area, Right Click and select Copy. You have now copied the entire line (html coding and all) required to post this image. You then only have to Right Click and Paste it where ever you want the image to show, such as the eBay Discussion Boards or your listings.
Direct Linking, also known as hot linking, is an absolute no-no. If you copy the URL of an image from someone else and post it directly (rather than saving the image to your own hard drive and uploading it to your own image hosting site) your are direct linking. By doing this, your are using that person's bandwidth, and if done too often can cause their site to exceed their limit and be taken down temporarily or crash. |
