so, after all that hard work, we were finally able to put a page together that is acceptable to eBay. but with a bunch of compromises, the new design lacks all the cool javascript we wanted to include, and i ended up using the regular "object" tag for youtube videos(which is btw flash) instead of the iphone friendly ("iframe") tag.
finally, the page has launched. excited to see the pages online in eBay, we navigate our way in firefox to finding our ocarinas through the search bar. after clicking on each one we notice a lot of things are amiss. first of all, the main picture gallery buttons and the main picture itself were overlapping, (which wasn't a problem at all when you hit the preview button in eBay's auction form.) afterwards we checked the pages through google chrome and safari and find that the layout is even worse. what a disappointment! internet explorer doesn't even load the youtube video. we're not to concerned about that because no one nowadays really uses it since all the other browsers out there have been more user friendly and faster. second of all the pictures in each gallery were the versions that were not color balanced so every picture had a slight tan/pinkish hue to it.
after making all the necessary corrections, the auction page is finally somewhat in the way we want it to be. its not perfect but its definitely really good considering our past experience with web development tools.
