For many sellers an eBay About Me page isn't enough. Along with superb photo hosting, EAPH includes web page hosting on up to your own yourdomainname.com web site if you desire.

Enhance your eBay selling effort by linking to your own web pages, or even create your own web site...

Using EAPH hosting you may create and publish web pages with the same tools as you use for creating your eBay item descriptions, eBay About Me pages, etc. Learn how your own web pages or your own web site can suppliment your eBay selling efforts. [continued below]

Easier yet, link from eBay to photo albums automatically created for you...

Simply customizing the automatically generated photo albums available with EAPH hosting may be all that you need. Create great looking galleries quickly and easily. [continued below]

EAPH hosting includes web page hosting and even domain hosting if you desire. You may create web pages using FreeForm or the Template Helper and publish them in your own web space. Access to those pages over the Internet is automatically enabled via addresses (URLs) like this:

http://www.yourmembername.eaph5.com/pagename.htm

and, if you have registered an Internet domain your hosting can be set up to also work with addresses like this:

http://www.yourdomainname.com/pagename.htm

Either way, here are two things you can do with web pages in conjunction with eBay:

• On eBay you may link from an item description to a web page that displays photos of the item for sale.  The conditions are that the page not include any attempt to sell the item, sell anything else, or link to any other page or web site from which anything is sold.
  
  
• From an eBay About Me page you many link to any web page provided nothing is sold from that page and that the page itself does not link to any page from which anything is sold either by you or others.

If the nature of your business is such that describing it via a single (eBay About Me) page is insufficient, impractical, or undesirable, you may create web pages that do a better job and simply link to them from your About Me page.

Carefully study eBay's rules pages before undertaking the above strategies:

eBay's Links Policy Linking to Descriptions Links from an eBay Store Links Policy FAQs About Me Guidelines

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As of July 2008 if you sell from your web site you may not link to it from eBay!

I won't try to mislead you: Even with FreeForm and/or the Template Helper tools assistance, creating a complete selling web site from scratch is not for the faint of heart. If you are ambitious you may visit RobsHelp and look at the FreeForm Template Samples #15, 16, 17, and 18, and the SellsHereToo sample - those include sample site navigation and sample usage of PayPal buttons.

The Features page at the EAPH also links to actual EAPH hosted member sites created and published using FreeForm.

Before undertaking to create a web site, especially a selling web site, please be sure to write to me first so we can discuss your options. Bear in mind, as with all of EAPH and FreeForm features I'm here to help any way I can and enjoy pitching in personally as needed with design and layout assistance.

Let's say you want to share a group of photos without going to a lot of trouble. With EAPH iDrive all you need to do is create a folder, upload new photos into it (or copy from other folders), then email, post, or publish a single URL automatically provided in iDrive for that purpose.

If you want to share them with a little more style you have the option to add a background, a custom title, a description section, a web page link, and an email link. The screen shot to the left is an example with those options added.

You will have created a simple web page with very little fuss but with the added convenience that its photo contents are automatically updated simply by adding to or removing photos from the folder.

If you are just a little more ambitious, photo albums may be linked together by setting them individually to do so. Before you know it you have a basic web site! Because the description areas accept HTML you may include PayPal Shopping Cart or Buy Now button code -- then you'll have a very basic selling web site.

Of course, usually a greater variety of page types are required for selling but for basic sharing and showing you're covered -- great for self-representing artists.

As of July 2008 if you sell from your web site you may not link to it from eBay!