New CSS eBay auctions

June 23, 2008

It has been a really long time (3 years!) since I posted my articles Using CSS to markup eBay auctions and More CSS on eBay and it has been at least that long since I actually listed anything on eBay. I suspect that there are probably more than a few people who have visited those articles and called BS on the sample templates that I posted. Fair enough. The original auction listings have long since been archived and I never did bother to take a  screen shot of one of the live auctions.

So now I’m back. Technically, I never went anywhere, but just quit keeping up with the site for a while. Mainly because I had some theme that I had butchered and lost my motivation. However, a couple months ago, I shelled out a few bucks for the Silver Essence theme by iThemes for this site. I’ve been working slowly (really slowly) to get all the different pieces of the site filled out.

In the interim to getting the site completed, I had some motivation to list some items on eBay this weekend. So, I spent some a couple of hours to get my new theme wired up to work on eBay. Take a look at the results:

For those that stumble on this page after those links don’t work, here is a screenshot on Flickr.

Perfect match to this site! Of course, much to my chagrin, I found out today that they weren’t displaying correctly in IE. Everything was way left justified. That is what I get for only using FF during the development. You’d think I would know better than to make that mistake. Of course, the only reason I found the issue is because I  pulled the listings up at work today in IE (because we aren’t allowed to use FF - don’t ask).

I was obviously familiar with the issue: standard IE centering issue. Unfortunately, the standard fix wasn’t working. I had to fall back to the !important IE bug to save me. But what was really nice about the whole things is that because I was using an external stylesheet hosted outside of the actual auction, I just uploaded a fixed version to my site and now the auctions render just fine (in FF3 and IE7).

Now let the bidding begin!

Popularity: 12% [?]

Share This

Posted by Matt Smith | Filed Under CSS, eBay 

Comments

Got something to say?





MyHomePoint

Having trouble keeping track of everything going on at home? Is the refrigerator organizer not cutting it anymore? We feel the same way...
Check out MyHomePoint »

Latest Blog Posts

Close
E-mail It