Providing a Link to Your About Me Page


You may not realize it but eBay supports an About Me feature that allows you to include information about yourself or your business. Your About Me page is associated with your eBay User ID, and can be accessed through a simple URL, like this: http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/UserID/.

Go ahead and try this link by inserting your own eBay User ID into the UserID part of the URL. Either you will see your own About Me page or you'll be given an opportunity to create one.

I mention the About Me page because it provides a good way for potential buyers to learn about you or your business when viewing one of your items for sale. All you have to do is use HTML to provide a link to your About Me page in the code for the item listing. Following is an example of how you might code such a link:

 <p>   To learn more about me, just click <a   href="http://members.ebay.com/aboutme/stalefishlabs/"><img   src="/books/4/158/1/html/2/http://pics.ebay.com/aw/pics/aboutme-small.gif" alt="About Me"   style="border-style:none" /></a>. </p> 


About the only unusual thing about this code is the image that it references, which is a small picture of the word "me" using eBay's trademarked multicolored letters. This image is hosted by eBay at http://pics.ebay.com/aw/pics/aboutme-small.gif, so all you have to do to use it is specify this URL in the src attribute of an <img /> tag.

By the Way

Generally speaking, using an image hosted by someone else on your web pages is highly discouraged. However, in this case eBay is the host of the auction page that contains your code, so it's okay.


Figure 20.5 shows the hockey skates eBay item page with the About Me page link visible at the bottom of the item description.

Figure 20.5. The image link to the About Me page uses a standard eBay image.


Clicking "me" in the figure takes users to your About Me page, where they can learn more about you or your business.




SAMS Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours
Sams Teach Yourself HTML and CSS in 24 Hours (7th Edition)
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