HTML for Your About Me Page

The whole goal of an eBay About Me page is to let potential buyers and sellers learn a little about you. To that end, you may want to include some dynamic eBay-specific information, such as your current feedback rating, feedback listings, items currently for sale, and so on.

When you include these tags into the HTML code for your About Me page, the current value of the information is automatically displayed. You don't have to bother with inserting your current feedback rating manually (and keeping it constantly updated); when you insert the <eBayFeedback> tag, the current feedback number is insertedand it changes automatically when your rating is updated.

Table A.1 details the special HTML tags you can use in your About Me page. You can also find a listing of these tags online at pages.ebay.com/help/account/html-tags.html. Many of these tags have additional parameters that you can add within the angle brackets. For example, to display your eBay feedback in red, you would code <eBayFeedback COLOR="red">.

Table A.1. eBay About Me HTML Codes

Code	Description	Parameters
<eBayFeedback>	Displays your user feedback.	SIZE="n" (specifies how many items you want to display COLOR="color" (displays the lower feedback line in color) ALTERNATECOLOR="color" (displays the upper feedback line in color) BORDER="n" (adds a border of n width around the listings) CAPTION="text" (displays a customized caption above the feedback list) TABLEWIDTH="n" (specifies the width of the feedback table, as a percentage of the available width) CELLPADDING="n" (adds spacing between the feedback comments)
<eBayItemList>	Displays the items you currently have for sale.	BIDS (displays the items you are currently bidding on) SORT="n" (sorts your items by a specific method; replace n with 8 to sort by date newest first, with 2 to sort by date oldest first, with 3 to sort by end date of auction newest first, or 4 to sort by price in ascending order) CATEGORY="n" (lists items in the specified category; replace n with the category number) SINCE="n" (specifies the number of days ended auctions stay in your list) BORDER="n" (adds a border of n width around the listings) CAPTION="text" (puts a customized caption at the top of your items table) TABLEWIDTH="n" (specifies the width of the item table, as a percentage of the available width) CELLPADDING="n" (adds spacing between the items)
<eBayMemberSince>	Displays the date of your eBay registration.	None
<eBayTime>	Displays the current eBay system time.	None
<eBayUserID>	Displays your user ID.	BOLD (displays your user ID in bold) NOLINK (displays your user ID without a link to your Member Profile page) NOFEEDBACK (displays your user ID without your feedback rating) EMAIL (also displays your email address) NOMASK (hides the "shades" new user icon)