About this sample:

FreeForm's Builder'B' two column, Frame Builder, and 'above/below Frame Builder frames' capabilities along with imaginative use of Text and Picture Input Areas creates this layout with what appears as an inlaid matte around the photos.

Often times an interesting or unusual layout will arise from accidents.  You may have something else in mind and along the way discover something even better. You may think of that as 'going with the flow' which is a healthy attitude to take with FreeForm.  For example, from a practical standpoint, the relatively neutral matte around the photos will insulate them from the darker outside wallpaper so this template could be used with a variety of photos without worrying about color conflicts.

On the other hand, FreeForm is flexible enough to handle most anything you do have in mind.  Usually, if there's a will there's a way so when you need help with layouts be sure to ask!

As with all the sample starter templates you are free to change colors, re-arrange content, add or remove content, use your own graphics and backgrounds, etc.  The samples are intended to inspire you with ideas and to demonstrate different types of layouts you can create using FreeForm.  You are not required or expected to use them exactly as they are set up here.

When it comes down to it you can also depend on Rob for assistance with details such as creating links and fine tuning arrangements.  FreeForm includes the ability to save everything you create within FreeForm itself.  That enables sharing what you are working on with Rob who can then access and help 'hands on' to achieve what you desire.

FreeForm only produces HTML known to be compatible with eBay.  That combined with Rob's 10 years experience helping eBay sellers and FreeForm's wonderful flexibility virtually guarantees learning to use FreeForm will be time well spent.

In the long run, more important than the capability to create templates, FreeForm provides a convenient interface for using what you have created.

As you build individual item descriptions or web pages you can alter your layouts 'on the fly' to accommodate more or less photos, more or less text areas.  Replace, add, remove, anything desired while leaving the parts that do not need to be altered alone.  All without having to learn or edit HTML.

You can leave placeholders in your templates by inserting any type of Input Area at any location without entering anything into it.  Rather than continuously inserting or removing Input Areas you may just blank out the entry areas and FreeForm ignores them in Preview and when producing the HTML results.

FreeForm's Text Input Areas provide for altering the size and formatting of text as desired including using a WYSIWYG interface to format individual words as needed.

This and the Text Input Areas above are sized at 750 pixels, a width at which paragraphs of text are easy to read.  750 pixels is also a width that will fit on virtually every shopper's screen so it is good to limit interior content of your layouts, including photos, to no more than 750 pixels wide.

If a layout like this will be used on eBay consider assigning a width of 940 pixels up in Global Features to make it work well in eBay's new selling page expected to be launched early 2009.