I got distracted by a few things today, including hunting down Gus and the Model Garage stories involving jeeps (read the first installment of that below).

Last night I revamped the eBay section some.  There’s more that I hope to do.  I’ve expanded the search keywords as well.  Besides a little nice look, when you run your cursor over the picture it will expand so you can see it better.

http://www.ewillys.com/buying-and-selling/ebay-page/

I am also hoping to get the new version of the site running this weekend.  The reason for the new version of the site is that I decided that creating a separate app for phone users would be unnecessary if I could implement a website that ‘degraded’ well onto the mobile platform.  After doing my research on mobile apps and experimenting, I found that developing for the iPhone (and other platforms) was more frustrating than I expected (and more difficult than advertised).  To explain much more requires understanding how the web is moving towards a HTML5 and CSS3 foundation, how phones are embracing that technology differently (differently among different devices as well as the web itself) and how they are implement those programming techniques on top of the their native programming and how only natively programmed apps (especially on the iPhone) actually run the best.  So, in the end, building a better mobile sensitive website is a better use of my time.

If the above paragraph doesn’t make sense to you, don’t worry.  I wish it didn’t make sense to me either (and didn’t a month ago before I started the app development process).