> He's talking about putting the stylistic instructions (font, background
> color, text size) on an external site. Personally I haven't tried it,
> because the semantically correct way to link to an external style sheet is
> to put it in the <head> section--which you can't access on an ebay auction
> page.
well, I read somewhere that (specifically regarding listings on ebay)
that one can
link to an external CSS, withOUT putting the link to the CSS inside the
'head'.
yes, I realize that's 'not standard procedure' but I'm really only
concerned wether
it'll work or not...'
as an aside: the same site, i believe, said ebay's pages are totally
-in-capable
of being html code validated, on the W3C site, or elsewhere...
> You could try just putting the necessary link in the body (which is the
> only part of the page you can edit when you create an auction),
the site I read (and have bookmarked 'somehwere' here ;-) said the link
to the
(external) CSS should be uppermost in the ebay listing...in the body, I
guess,
just like you suggest :-)
> In all likelihood he wants to do
> it this way because he has a lot of auctions and he wants to format them
> all the same way;
bingo! that'd be exactly correct. also, there'll be links in my 'about
me' page
to add'l external images (of some items) and those pages would either
use the
same CSS, or a very similar one "for a uniform-type presentation', so to
speak...
(also would remake re-styling it all, in three minutes flat, "a doable do")
> it would be easier to just link them all to a single
> style sheet than to put all the formatting data into each and every one
> (and then if he decides he wants a larger typeface he only has to change
> one file).
woops! I should've read this paragraph too :-) I agree 100% :-)
> A train wreck in the making, it's never going to work. Dump the idea
> of "free" image hosts to start with, and go invest $36 or whatever in
> a year's worth of web hosting that you can complain about if it
> doesn't function.
you're assuming the "pay for" hosts will be better, or 'more reliable'
than the
'free' image hosts, which may (or may *not*) be the case...
status update from "captain bizarro":
I've posted the exact same image to five different free hosts, named the
same thing, and I'm presently
(attempting to) 'force resize' them into being thumb size (by declaring
their size as thumb dimensions) all from the SAME webpage (on my
desktop, presently).
then, when the 'thumb' is clicked, it opens a 'browser window sized'
image, and
clicking that again opens the "real"
(aka: full-sized) image. this works with one, so far, but not the
other four. not sure why*. anyone know if it's possible for the 'underlying
source' on a webpage to "call out to" images hosted on five different
servers?
and have them all load successfully on the same page? (I'm still working
on this)
end goal being:
to find out which of the freebie hosts "loads at all" and after that,
which of 'em loads FASTEST...all my REAL ebay listing image links will
'point to'
images on 'the best host' ...
we all gotta do what we gotta do...this'll all be a learning experience
for me, IF nothing else.
*I'm gonna try renaming them different names and re-upping them (but
still same exact
image), and I'll retry page loading comparisons again, in a few minutes...
thanks for all,
toolie
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