A Complete Neewbie Q Re: Property Websites.

[stuu3270]

Hi,

I have been teaching myself HTML over the past year or so and just fiddling about and practising, trying to find motivation. I have two friends who want me to have a go at a basic website for them.

My question is this...

How do online stores or specifically property companies (real estate/ estate agents) program their sites? I would like to know how to deign a section of drop down selections (i.e min - max price, colour, etc.) that will then display a number of properties or products from a database or list.

Is it easy to learn?

Also, how could a 'client' update their own site with additional products or properties?

Thanks,
Stu

 

[smoovo]

HTML is the basic language, it is the language that creates the design of the page, the content. To use editable/dynamic page, we are using PHP and MySQL (sometimes Ajax too...) to develop the system.

PHP is a language that can build an HTML page, sometimes it's based on a MySQL database tables. So if we build PHP page that collects user inputs, and we storing this values in a database table, it will change this page content on next load.

It's very interesting, and i think you should give it a chance.

- Enjoy.