The Purple Crayon Guide to Zazzle Templates

Subject: The Purple Crayon Guide to Zazzle Templates Fri Apr 24, 2009 2:22 pm

You can make yourself a template for future use instead of the standard one with all products. The only thing that you have to create single is boards, shoes and stamps.

To set up your own template:

Choose the standard template, then delete all duplicates (like you have one button/magnet/keychain with "fit" or "fill" option, several shirts etc.) I leave one light and one dark shirt - you can always customize which shirt you need after, and don´t forget that you only need one shirt and the customers can choose which style/color they want to buy. This option saves Zazzles marketplace being flooded with dozens of the same designs ... I have different templates for different galleries/purposes saved.

Once you have picked the products you want hit "Next". This takes you to a window where you put in a name for the set, a description and tags ("template" in both fields will do, you just need to put something in there), Important: for "product visibility" pick "Hidden - only you can see it"! You also need to pick a public category (I use Arts, design, fashion=>graphic design=> templates), and a contributor product line (I made a section "templates" to save mine in).

Hit "post it". After a short while your own template set will be available by
choosing my zazzle=>products=> big button "quick create" in the top left, and then in the window that opens click on "select" at "use your own templates". This opens a selection of your sections, click on the one you saved your set in. Add your design instead of the "Your image here" graphic (clicking on the select button underneath will open your image folder(s)).

Then all products you selected in your template set will appear with your design. You can now check if all is well, customize further by adding more graphics (like background pictures to mousepad, buttons etc.), altering size/alignment, choosing the shirt style and color you want to display.

By hitting next you get to the window where you add the product name, description, tags, choose the sections you want the products to appear in, mark-up - and of course this time you want to choose "available for sale" in the product visibility - this is the standard option, so you don´t have to alter that. then hit post for sale.

After a while your products will appear and you can tackle the next design.

Have fun!