How to Make a Flyer on Craigslist
Craig's list is a for profit forum that is focused on local classifieds and forums for over 550 cities in over 50 countries world-wide that is community moderated and mostly free to use by consumers. One can find anything from job postings, goods, services, local activities, and advice through the site. The website originally started as an email list of San Francisco events by founder Craig Newmark in 1995. Since the inception of the website, it has grown to the 8th most viewed English speaking website on the planet with more than 30 million new classifieds posted monthly.
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Instructions
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Decide what you are going to sell on Craig's list and for what price.
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Decide if you are going to hand code your flyer or use a tool (Word, TextEdit on a MAC, other HTML capable software editing). For this example, a manual example will be used.
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Upload the images to be included in the flyer on a remote website.
To include pictures in the Craig's List flyer, the images must be hosted on a remote website. One free place (among many) that one can do this is through Google ISites. -
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Write your flyer either freehand or in a text editor. For this example, use a title with bulleted information and images of the product included below the information.
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Convert the flyer header to HTML in a text editor. For this example, Text Edit on OS X is used. Notepad on a Window's machine accomplishes the same task. For the sample flyer, Hawaiian Tiki Masks are being sold. To convert the title, "Hawaiian Tiki Masks for sale" to HTML, first select a header tag to determine the size of font. Craig's List supports header tags H1 through H6:
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Create a bulletized list annotating specific facts about the article for sale. Craig's List supports unordered lists in HTML for the flyer code. An unordered list starts with the <ul> tag, followed by <li> tags which indicate each item in the list. Note, do not forget to close out each list item tag with </li> before listing the next item in the list. After the final list item the unordered list tag must be closed with </ul>. For example:
<ul>
<li>Hand Carved Hawaiian Tiki Masks </li>
<li>Own a piece of history!</li>
<li>Only $20!!!!</li>
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Add links to the remotely hosted pictures. Note the image description should be to the left of the link.
Decorative Hawaiian Tiki Masks
<img src="http://sites.google.com/site/javanx3dshome/Home/randompictures/HawaiianMasks.JPG?attredirects=0"/> -
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Save, copy and then paste the html you have created into the Craig's list advertisement section to complete the flyer.
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View your Craig's list flyer to ensure that it has the desired look and feel. Note that viewing the test flyer must be done in Craig's list to verify illegal html tags are not used.
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Tips & Warnings
Only use HTML in your Craig's List flyer that would come in between the <body> </body> tags of a Web page.
Do not inlude external links other than for pictures in your flyer to avoid your ad being banned or flagged.
If you are using a tool such as MS Word, choose the save->as option that strips extraneous tags from the HTML.
Do not use CSS (cascading style sheets) if using a Web page creation tool for flyer creation for Craig's list.
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