Hi gardengirl,
eBay had an announcement on April 14th that included the June 15th rollout of the New Design item listing page. Here's the announcement:
http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/2...tml#2009-04-14065506
Here's a brief and look at the new page:
http://pages.ebay.com/sell/newitempage/index.html
The 500 x 500 is a overlay zoom on some of the testing I've seen. They have suggest 1000 zoom possibly coming later in one note I saw on that 2nd link. I have seen some discussion over the past year on the 500 x 500 as a new "standard", but the design has changed serveral times. Note, eBay Picture Manager uses 400 x 400 for a "Standard" size. Do your remember the yellow listing beta pages in the fall? That was the prior design to this monochromatic gray.
The collage feature is found in the Google Picasa free product (see link on prior post). You download and install Picasa at your desktop. Select "Create" and "Picture Collage..." from the menu for that feature.
Danno
Edit: Here's a good sample of the New Design page at the eBay Developers Sandbox. Note the square header and overlay enlarge with zoom. The New Design does away with the traditional bottom picture. The new method is a header with one (or more) images with zoom.
http://cgi.sandbox.ebay.com/ws...sid=p1723.m118.l1247