Apply Cool Templates with eBay s Listing Designer

Apply Cool Templates with eBay's Listing Designer

Most of the item listings on eBay look the same: a paragraph or two of plain text, maybe a picture unceremoniously dropped in below the text. That's how a listing looks when you enter a normal, plain-text description for your item listing.

But then there are those ads that shout at you with colored text and different font faces and sizes and multiple columns and sizzling graphics and…well, you know the ones I'm talking about. How do you go about creating a dynamic listing like that?

The easiest way to create a listing that goes beyond plain text is with eBay's Listing Designer. This feature is available to all users, right from the Sell Your Item pageand it costs only $0.10 a listing.

Listing Designer provides over one hundred pre-designed templates, which eBay calls themes. You choose a theme when you're creating your item listing, in the Listing Designer section of the Describe Your Item page, a shown in Figure 17.1. Just select a theme from the Theme list, then choose a layout from the Photo Layout list. (Figure 17.2 shows a listing enhanced with a Listing Designer theme.)

Figure 17.1. Use eBay's Listing Designer to choose a template for your item listing.

Figure 17.2. An eBay item listing enhanced with a Listing Designer template.