A quick question

[Little John]

Hiya another request by me.

Can anyone point me in the direction of creating an online catalog not to sell things just to display the contents.

I have been asked to create an online catalog of badges. The badges come from the hard rock cafe and can be bought from all over the world. I am looking for it to be searchable and contain a description, other information about the badge and an image of the badge.

Up untill now he has just used a image gallery and a description for each image but it is taking alot of time to keep up to date there are over 1000 badges, if it was possible for people to submit badges it would make life even easier.

I would like to learn how to do this myself so any direction from you people would be apreciated rather than someone offering to do it for me. Links to sites or books would be great

Thanks
LJ

EDIT:
I thought it would be better in the web programing bit

[stixson]

How much web stuff you know?
i code websites and for your task i would use the following:
HTML
ASP
ACCESS DATABASE

i would use the database to store all the info
the ASP to communicate with the database and manipulate how to show it all.
HTML for the main part of the web.

I would start at www.w3schools.com to get to grips with HTML and ASP (i know i know, PHP AND MYSQL are favourites but im an old dog and new tricks dont work with me)
A simple database could keep this kind of web site in check.

Hope this is a start.

Stixson

[big man]

as stixson said, you'll need a database of some type and some coding knowledge. personally i'd go for asp.net over classic asp, but other than that i agree with what he says

the main points you'll need to look at are returning data from the database, paging the returned data (so you don't have all 1000 images on one page), and uploading images and saving data

start with retreiving data and paging, don''t get too bogged down in everything else yet

the w3schools site is always a favourite place for beginners as it's easy to understand

if you get stuck on anything, stick a post here (tell us which language you went) and i'm sure we can help you out. as i learned when i started coding - there's no such thing as a stupid question