Converting your template for use in Blackthorne Pro
You may have been using a particular template on your eBay listings and wish to use it in Blackthorne Pro. The information below demonstrates the conversion of a sample template.
Perhaps your template looks like this:
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TITLE
Description |
Click photos to see larger:
(Photos go in this area.) |
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| PAYMENTS |
We accept PayPal & Money Orders. Payment must be received no later than 10 days after the end of auction. |
| REFUNDS |
You must notify us within 3 days of receiving your item that you wish to return it. Ship via same carrier within 3 days of that. |
| SHIPPING |
All packages will be sent via USPS Priority Mail. Insurance is required on all packages. |
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(If you are converting from SAPro you can get your html by viewing your template within SAPro, then viewing the source in Internet Explorer (View>Source>.)
Your html for this:
<body bgcolor="#ddc888" text="#000000">
<table width="700" border="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" bgcolor="#CCCCFF">
<tr>
<td><img src="top.jpg" width="700" height="75"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<p align="center"><b></b></p>
<table width="700">
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="400">
<p><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica" size="6" color="#806fd7">TITLE</font></b></p>
<p><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica">Description</font></p>
</td>
<td width="300"> </td>
</tr>
</table>
<blockquote>
<blockquote>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
</blockquote>
</blockquote>
<table width="500" border="1" align="center" bgcolor="#ddc888">
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td colspan="2"><img src="tos.jpg" width="500" height="54"></td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="50"><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica" color="#CF6066" size="2">PAYMENTS</font></b></td>
<td width="450"><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica" size="2" color="#6633CC">We
accept PayPal & Money Orders. Payment must be received no later
than 10 days after the end of auction.</font></b></td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="50"><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica" color="#CF6066" size="2">REFUNDS</font></b></td>
<td width="450"><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica" size="2" color="#6633CC">You
must notify us within 3 days of receiving your item that you wish
to return it. Ship via same carrier within 3 days of that. </font></b></td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="50"><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica" color="#CF6066" size="2">SHIPPING</font></b></td>
<td width="450"><b><font face="Trebuchet MS, Arial, Helvetica" size="2" color="#6633CC">All
packages will be sent via USPS Priority Mail. Insurance is required
on all packages.</font></b></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="bottom.jpg" width="700" height="75"></td>
</tr>
</table>
Create an Ad Template (AT) in BTPro. Do this thru Tools>Options>Templates:Ad Templates. Duplicate the Simple AT and name it as you wish. Click on the Edit button. This window opens:
Click on the HTML View Tab to see this:
If you have a background color or image that you have been using in your template, delete the html text:
<BODY >
<P>[[Description]]</P></BODY>
If not, delete the html text:
<P>[[Description]]</P>
Paste your html from above in the space where you deleted the html. Click on the Design View tab. You will need to replace your title, description, graphics & other "placeholders" with the Blackthorne Pro tags:
Your graphics may appear as a blank placeholder. If they are not appearing, delete the placeholder for each and click on the camera icon to enter the URL of the graphics. If they appear, all is fine.
In the space of your title placeholder, highlight your placeholder and select the Item Field, Title. Click the Insert Field button to place the BTPro variable for your title. In the space of your description placeholder, hightlight that, select the Item Field, Description & insert its variable.
Using the sample above with these modifications, the Design View now looks like this:
If you will only use one AT, that's fine. But - if you want, for example, to use your TOS table in additional templates, you should create a Global AutoText (GAT) of it so when/if you want to make changes to your TOS, you will only have to modify the GAT, not all the ATs which include your standard TOS.
To make a GAT of your TOS table, copy the html for that section only. In the AT studio, click on the Edit Auto Text button near the bottom/right of the AT window. Click New, name your GAT, such as TOS. Paste the TOS html into the GAT entry field. You may double-click on this to see your TOS table in Design View. Click OK to save your GAT. Now in your Global AutoText section will be the variable, TOS, which you created. Delete the table appearing in design view and insert your TOS GAT:
Insert your picture links on the right. (Since my table above doesn't have a border, I had to guess where the right column is. You may have to do trial & error to make sure you're placing the [[PictureX]] tags.
If you have the pictures within your template (as this sample shows), you will need to click on the Options tab in the AT studio and set Image Layout to Manual. You might also set the Image Width to 300 pixels, particularly if you place the images on the side as above. (Notice, I've added the text, Click to see larger, above the Picture tags.
This results in the Preview:
Please notice, in the sample above, I used only 2 photos (the second is a composite). Only the photos you select for your listing will appear. Tags for which there are no photos will not appear in your Preview or listing. (Similarly, if you have [[Subtitle]] or another field tag for which you have no entry in the data field, that tag will not appear in the Preview or listing.
For more info on BTPro's Ad Templates, please see the eBay workshop on them.
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