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12/24/2014 12:27:35 PM EDT
Ok guys this is going to be technical to the point I don't understand it so help me out. I see some of the listings on Gunbroker always have pre-written item descriptions with the gun info , shipping info, and payment info.

How do these guys make these out and get them in the description? Everytime I've tried it turns into one run on paragraph.

Could you please help me out. I know this is probably secrets a lot of guys don't want to help a newbie out with but I'm hoping there is one guy out there who likes to help people. Who

might just find it in his heart to take time to teach this to a guy who isn't so computer savy. Thanks.
12/24/2014 1:17:52 PM EDT
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Ok guys this is going to be technical to the point I don't understand it so help me out. I see some of the listings on Gunbroker always have pre-written item descriptions with the gun info , shipping info, and payment info.

How do these guys make these out and get them in the description? Everytime I've tried it turns into one run on paragraph.

Could you please help me out. I know this is probably secrets a lot of guys don't want to help a newbie out with but I'm hoping there is one guy out there who likes to help people. Who

might just find it in his heart to take time to teach this to a guy who isn't so computer savy. Thanks.
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HTML code is the stuff you see in brackets. If you hit the "Quote" feature it will show all the text in this post with the various HTML tags when a paragraph, bold text, color text, etc is needed.

There are thousands of website that can help you edit whatever text you want to post on an ad. You could also use software to enable automatic HTML tags.

Here's one website:
http://www.html.am/
12/24/2014 2:45:19 PM EDT
[#2]
Here's an easy primer:

< > those brackets around a letter "run" or "switch on" a feature.

<b>  now all of the text in an html document will be bold.  (until you use the turn off feature

</ > the front slash, in front of your code letter, "stop" or "switch off" a feature.

</b>  so now we've switched off the bold feature.  

<u>now we should see an underline</u> Now the underline is off.

<p>  throws a new paragraph.  (gives you a blank line under your text)  No need to use the off switch for this particular code.

<i>  gives you italics  </i>  

Hope that helps.
12/27/2014 10:30:17 AM EDT
[#3]
Do you have Microsoft WORD or a similar word processing program (like the free Open Office Writer)?


Most of these programs will let you format text the way you want to see it then save it all as an HTML file. You then copy the HTML “source” in the GunBroker text block


The text above will look like this when you copy the source data:


<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal">Do
you have WORD or a similar word processing program (like the free
Open Office Writer)?
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal"><BR>
</P>
<P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in; font-weight: normal">Most these
programs will let you format text the way you want to see it then
save it all as an <U>HTML file</U>. You then copy the HTML “source”
in the <FONT COLOR="#ff0000"><B>GunBroker</B></FONT> text block</P>
12/28/2014 10:14:39 PM EDT
[#4]
Get your template figured out and use the gunbroker offline lister program which will allow you to set your template as the default for every listing. You go in and cut and paste the info for that item into your template and then they all look the same.
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