How to create craigslist ads with a colored background
I wanted my craigslist ad to stand from the crowd. I’ve looked through the similar ads and found that most of them were on a white background. Why not to have a colored background? My ad was very simple, it’s only two sentences. My text in bold on an yellow background would catch people eyes. And it’s not difficult to do it - I know html, I know styles (basic style and html is enough for this simple job) so why not to create a cute yellow background. When I started I anderstand Why - it’s a litle tricky to add a background to a craigslist ad.
Step 0 - Go to Craigslist, choose where to place your ad, click on “post to classifieds”, “Posting Description” field - this is where you need to type your code
Step 1 - to make text on a yellow background -> place the text inside a division and add style to the division’s background
CODE:
<div style=”background-color:yellow;”>I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!</div>
RESULT:
I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!
Step 2 - To make my font bold -> add font-weight: bold
CODE:
<div style=”background-color:yellow;font-weight:bold;”>I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!</div>
RESULT:
I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!
Step 3 -Make my font bigger -> add font-size:22px -> BUT it did not work, I was sure my result would be bigger font on an yellow background, in reality it becam:
I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!
All my styles inside division disappeared.
I had to use old-fashioned font tag.
CODE:
<div style=”background-color:yellow;font-weight:bold;”><font size=”4″>I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!</font></div>
RESULT:
I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!
To make it looks a little better I used break tag before and after …WORKS!!!
RESULT:
I’m looking to buy an Entertainment 2009 book. Please email if you have one!
I’ve got 16 response emails in the first two hours; for my previous ad with the same text I’ve got only 3 responses. Colored background makes a difference…
Remember when you are trying to create a background Craigslist may delete your code - so be careful and if your tags deleted use something different. I used font tag instead of font-size for styling and break tags instead of padding …You can experiment with other tags and find what work…
Written by Liz from http://craigslist-templates.com. You can email her liz © craigslist-templates.com
