Website developers please help me here, what’s the correct way to display items on a retail website?

September 15, 2009 - 4:37 am 3 Comments

I’m creating a retail website and am pretty new at this. This company has a couple hundred items to sell, and i would like to display them in a neat way so that each category has its own couple of pages with lets say 12 items per page.
I also want to add a view all button next to the pages links for visitors to be able view all items in this category in one single page.

My question is, is there an automated way to insert all items and apply a rule so there would only be a fixed amount of items per page and the rest would drift over to the next pages? and then i would link a view all button to the same page without that rule?
or i would need to create all pages by itself and then link a view all button to a new page with all items?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I think you are asking about a file that runs requests to a SQL server… where the pictures of the items are stored in the SQL server and when someone requests certain criteria, all the products that qulify would pop up on a page… or more than one page…

Like all green t-shirts would come together on one page if someone clicked to see green t-shirts? And if there were more than, say, 12, there would be 2 pages or more and the user could opt to see all on 1 page if they click on a button.

Is this correct?

If so, what you need to find out about is how to use and operate a My SQL or an SQL data Base.

I wish I could help, but I’m trying to figure this out myself.

Good luck!

3 Responses to “Website developers please help me here, what’s the correct way to display items on a retail website?”

  1. Colanth Says:

    There are automated ways, but not something you could copy and drop in. It has to be programmed – and you have to know programming to write a program – whether it’s for a computer or a laborer, the process is the same.
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  2. mr_crankypants Says:

    Godaddy.com has a website building tool that will do that. It’s super easy and you don’t have to code HTML.
    References :

  3. Chiky Says:

    I think you are asking about a file that runs requests to a SQL server… where the pictures of the items are stored in the SQL server and when someone requests certain criteria, all the products that qulify would pop up on a page… or more than one page…

    Like all green t-shirts would come together on one page if someone clicked to see green t-shirts? And if there were more than, say, 12, there would be 2 pages or more and the user could opt to see all on 1 page if they click on a button.

    Is this correct?

    If so, what you need to find out about is how to use and operate a My SQL or an SQL data Base.

    I wish I could help, but I’m trying to figure this out myself.

    Good luck!
    References :

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