Simple is better. Here's a free resource to help you think about your ad before you make a mistake

Nancie,
before you jump in and create some godawful template to distract your potential clients, think about what you want to accomplish.

Simple auctions bring better results. Title, description, pictures, and short concise shipping information are all you need.

There is no need to buy anything or get any third party tools. You'll spend more time learning how to use a work around, than learning the few basic commands you’ll need anyway. (There are only about a dozen tags you need to know.)

If you have ten feedbacks or are a verified seller use Turbolister.

Create a template with simple html tags, then paste it into turbolister and save it as your template. (My free report “The eBay Seller’s Guide” explains the tags you’ll need on a single page you can print out for reference.)

If you don't have ten feedbacks buying some cheap items or selling some stuff to move your feedback up is better and easier than getting verified. Cheaper too.

When I first started selling on eBay, I wrote all my auctions in a template I created in Word, then copied and pasted each auction into the sell your item form. If you don't have enough feedback to use turbolister, you can do that too.

When you are doing things, you should concentrate on doing things that give you additional skills. Learning a little bit of HTML now will help you in the future.

Check this out. . .

blank line above uses one tag,

drop a line without a blank line using one tag. Change font color with one tag. Italics is one tag; bold is another. Insert a link with one tag.

You can combine the font tags together like this.

The total number of tags between the lines is 8, and you also need to learn the image tag so that's only nine tags to learn.

You’ll spend more time trying to avoid learning those 9 tags, than it would take you to learn them.

Terry