Template File Select an Auction template file from the following pages 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 The template will open in its own window. Save your chosen template on your own computer by selecting File ~ Save As. Edit the Template To edit the template file either open the file in notepad or use your favourite basic text or HTML editor. To preview the changes you make to the template save it, then double click on the file and it should open up in your browser. Change The Background Image If you do not like the background image I have used you can change it for one of the others I have available on the Background Image pages Each background image has a name, b01 - b96. Replace the existing background image with your own by finding the HTML statement background="http://www.ukauctionhelp.co.uk/backs/bxx.jpg" and substituting the new image name. The statement may appear multiple times throughout the template file. Alternatively you could replace the whole image URL, inside the quotes above, with one pointing to a background image hosted on another web server. Change Colours Text, Borders & Background Colours can all be changed. HTML uses two methods for specifying colours, some colours have names i.e. red, blue, green etc and all available colours can also be specified with a 6 digit hexadecimal code in the form #AABBCC. In the template you can change the colour wherever you see either one of the colour hex codes or a colour 'word', look in the table & font tags for the statements bgcolor=, color= or bordercolor= . Change the Font Used When designing web pages you can change the font. The limitation is that the person viewing your web page needs to have the font you have specified already installed on their PC. A standard Windows installation includes a number of different fonts which you can use. To alter the font in the template look for the statement <font face="xxxxx"> and replace the xxxxx with the new fonts name in each font tag in the file. Your Items Photo If your listing is going to be using an image which is hosted by eBay then you will need to remove the image from the template by deleting the section of HTML code which is between the <!-- Image --> tags. To add your own image to the template replace the backs/ixx.jpg with the full URL of your image i.e. http://my.image.host/my.directory/myimage.jpg . Payment Logos To remove this section completely delete the HTML code which is between the <!-- PayLogos --> tags. Otherwise visit the Payment Logo page and change them. Other logos might be available on the relevant companies web sites. Change the flag(s) To remove the flag(s) delete all the HTML code which is between the <!-- flags --> tags. Otherwise visit the flags page and change the flag. For more detail on using these templates see How To Use the Templates Otherwise you could visit Auction Ad Creator and use their form based tool to create an Auction Listings.