Making Craig’s List Flyers for the Work at Home Parent
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Creating Craig’s List flyers can be a daunting task for the work at home parent making their first attempt at using the Internet to make money online. Creating a basic Craig’s List flyer requires the use of basic HTML programming that can be done in your computer’s text editor. For those new to eBusiness, Craig’s List is one of the most popular for-profit forums based on classified ads across the world. It has also become necessary for the work at home parent to offer his or her services here as a compliment to eBay in order to best maximize sales and work at home profits. Craig’s List has more than 30 million new classified ads posted every month and is one of the ‘Top Ten’ English speaking websites in the world.
Setting Up Your Development Environment for Creating Craig’s List Flyers
The first step is to setup your development environment. To get started, open up Notepad or another text editor on your computer and paste the following code into the blank document to create a blank web page:
<html>
<body>
<h1>My First Craig’s List Flyer </h1>
</body>
</html>
Note that unlike past examples, the Craig’s List flyer will only use the HTML that we author found in between the opening and closing body tag in the example.
Creating a Craig’s List Flyer
Step 1 – Transfer the Images to use for your flyer either directly to your Craig’s List Advertisement or to a web server to reference the picture. For your first few Craig’s List flyers, I recommend uploading directly to their server in the advertisement context.
Step 2 – Create the Flyer’s Heading by replacing the text used in the Development Environment setup in between the opening and closing <H1> tags with the title of what you are going to sell. In this case, we’ll change it to “1970 Collectible Wedgwood Plates for Sale.”
<h1>1970 Collectible Wedgwood Plates for Sale </h1>
Step 3 - Make a bulletized list that contains amplifying information about the item you are selling. We will use an un-ordered list to create the list. The <UL> tag annotates the start and end of an unordered list and the <LI> tag indicates each specific item contained in the list. The list will be after the flyer heading but before the closing <body/> tag in the HTML code.
<UL>
<LI>Authentic 1970 Wedgewood Collectible Plate </LI>
<LI> Original Box Included </LI>
<LI> Only $15 USD! </LI>
<UL>
Step 4
To include an image directly in your flyer, you have to upload the picture to a remote web server not at Craig’s List to reference in the image source tag. For example:
The Wedgewood Plate For Sale <img src=www.mywebserver.com/myimage.jpeg>
Step 5
Copy the HTML code found in between the two Body tags in the example and paste into the Craig’s List advertisement you are uploading.
<h1>1970 Collectible Wedgwood Plates for Sale </h1>
<UL>
<LI>Authentic 1970 Wedgewood Collectible Plate </LI>
<LI> Original Box Included </LI>
<LI> Only $15 USD! </LI>
<UL>
That’s it. To view the HTML tags that Craig’s List supports, you can go here. As you experiment with creating Craig’s List flyers, you will find that different combinations of HTML with imagery perform at varying levels based on your niche and the geographic area you live.
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