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Bob's Tips. Who doesn't know about Bob's tips? If you're just starting out with html or if you're new to ebay check it out!
baconbuttie's auction tools is a great place to get javascripts for auction templates. If you want to change background color, change link colors, add background image, or make other cool modifications to your listings he'll show you the right way to do it.
Auction Repair has some really useful tools for ebay users. Is your photo not showing up? You can find out why here.
eobcards has cut and paste html for just about anything you want to do on your ebay auction template.
Wizard Mithrandir is always helpful on the ebay boards. His html example page is no exception. He also offers an html course for a very nominal price.
Wizard Mithrandir's html tags chart. A great reference tool.
Mystydog's "me" page is one of the nicest I've seen. Many useful html tips and a great list of ebay related links. Free .gif links too.
lesley_feeney's "me" page. Wow. Look at this cool list of links to html & graphics sites relevant to ebay.
Special eBay html tags. Use these tags along with standard HTML tags to customise your ebay pages.

Ranchoweb's html practice board is great for experimenting on your auction templates or posting html in order to get help on the boards. Type in your html and post the URL on the board so people can see your work to give you help or to admire your html skill.
Indian Mt's html practice board. Indian Mt's "me" page is another good place to test out your html experiments.
Auction Health's temporary photo storage. If you need to share a photo with people on the boards but do not have an image host use this free service to temporarily host your image. Post the URL to the board and people can see your photo for a few days.

How to take good photos. Tanker Jim's page is a must see. If you want to take good quality auction photos without buying a bunch of expensive equipment look here.
ebay's photo tutorial.

IrfanView. "IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP." (from irfanview.com)
The GIMP. "The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring." (from gimp.org)
GIFWorks. GIFWorks has a free online gif editor. "Create your own special effects with any GIF -- even animated ones! Resize it, colorize it, optimize it, and jazzercise it -- then save it and take it with you." (from GIFWorks website)

ebay support webform. Try this first if you need help from ebay customer support.
eBay help for hijacked accounts If you suspect that your ebay account has been hacked go here now! Also see live help link below.
ebay live help. This is one of those links to keep in your favorites. I recommend saving helpful ebay links as a html or text document on your computer for future reference. It's a lot easier than trying to find them through ebay's help pages.