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I Don't Get It - What Is Auction Nudge?

Auction Nudge is a free tool that alows you to include live information from your eBay account on your own website, blog, online store and pretty much anywhere that you can paste a small HTML snippet. You can include your current listings that you have for sale on eBay as well as information about your eBay profile.

For example if you run a website that is aimed at vintage cookie cutter enthusiasts and you also sell vintage cookie cutters on eBay - you may want to display your current eBay listings on your own website. Auction Nudge allows you do do this and means you can show your cookie cutters for sale right next to the cookie cutter information on your site. By doing this you are targeting your listings at your visitors who already have an interest in cookie cutters and the best part is that once up and running Auction Nudge will automatically update itself and only show your active items!

It is really simple to set up and only requires one line of code to be copied onto your site. To see how easy it is, use one of the links on the right to view a live demo and get started. There are also demos and help available right here!

How Do I Install Auction Nudge?

Watch the video which covers installing Auction Nudge on your site and also how to customize how your items appear (view video in full screen for best results) :

To install Auction Nudge on your website :

Copy ALL of the code in the text box in Step three ('Copy the code snippet onto your site')
Using any text editor open the file for the web page on which you want to install Auction Nudge.
Paste the copied code into the file where you want the eBay listings to appear (somewhere between the <body> and </body> tags).
Save your modified web page.
Upload the modified web page to your server.

Please see the stripped down demo, and the stripped down demo source code to see Auction Nudge working on a simple web page.

For details on how to customize Auction Nudge please see Are there any examples of customizing the appearance and layout using CSS? below.

How Can I Modify The Appearance Of Auction Nudge?

As well as choosing from different themes when you generate your Auction Nudge code you can also change the appearance using simple CSS rules. Auction Nudge will automatically use the default CSS rules for your web page, for example the default font and link colours so it integrates nicely with your page.

You can change the CSS rules for Auction Nudge by specifying new rules in your style sheet. Please see the CSS demos below for more help.

As a quick example, to make all of the product titles bold you would add this rule to your style sheet :

div#auction-nudge-items td.title {
  font-weight: bold;
}

To change the alternating background colours when displaying rows of items you would add this rule to your style sheet :

div#auction-nudge-items table.columns tr {
  background-color: red;  /* Change to desired colour */
}
div#auction-nudge-items table.columns tr.alt {
  background-color: blue;  /* Change to desired colour */
}

All themes can be adjusted in this way.

Are there any examples of customizing the appearance and layout using CSS?

Yes! Please see the list below for some examples, the source code is also available for each ...

How to adjust colours - view demo - view demo source
Making the title bold - view demo - view demo source
Adjusting font type and appearance - view demo - view demo source
How to change the background color of the rows in the 'Column View' theme - view demo - view demo source
How to adjust the theme width - view demo - view demo source
Changing the appearance of images in the 'Images Only' theme - view demo - view demo source
Specifying a width / height for listings and adding a scroll bar - view demo - view demo source
This example demonstrates how to change the text and background colours used by the 'Your eBay Feedback' theme - view demo - view demo source

You can use any number of CSS rules to change the appearance - a good article on this can be found here.

Are There More Themese Available?

At present all themes are listed in the 'Step two: Customise how your listings will look' section when you generate your code, however I am always interested in creating new themes so if you have any suggestions then feel free to contact me with any input you have.

Can I change the behaviour of Auction Nudge?

Yes, Auction Nudge is added to your page as HTML elements once the page has loaded. As with writing custom CSS rules this means you can also interact with these elements using Javascript. For example:

Making links generated by Auction Nudge open in a popup window once clicked - view demo - view source
Watch the video tutorial:
Hiding the "bids" column in the "Coulmn View" theme if you only have Buy It Now items - view demo - view source
Making Auction Nudge content load after other page content - view demo - view source

Can I display items from more than one seller on a single page?

Yes and No. At the moment Auction nudge will only display one set of items and if you paste in two sets of Auction Nudge code you will just get duplicate listings.

There is however a work-around for this using iframes. There is an example of this here: view demo - view source

You can using CSS to style the iframes how you wish - for example you may want the 'columns' to be wider or for second set of listings to display below and not beside the first. This is possible.

How often does Auction Nudge update?

Auction Nudge updates every 60 minutes. This is to reduce server load and means that the feed on your website will also only change every 60 minutes.

How many items can Auction Nudge show and how are they ordered?

Auction Nudge can show up to 100 items at any one time, with items ending soonest displayed first.