HTML - Need Advice On Creating A Search Field

I am currently working on a form for customers to fill out and submit to my mysql database. I am having a hard time deciding how to do it. I am wanting to have the usual name, address, city, state and phone, etc.. BUT I need them to fill out up to 30 different text fields with information (seems like a lot but they will not fill out all 30 text areas).

I am wondering how I should go about the 30 text areas? Is this best done with HTML or should I be looking at something else? I am pretty new to this so any help or advice would be great. I am wondering if by creating a table with 2 columns and then have 2 text areas side by side going down 15 rows would be best.

Thanks in advance,

Scott

Ive been asked to fix up an old webpage. The old web master is a bit senile and can not complete the page. I had created a php page but the server is so old that it doesnt support php. I want a page with a simple leftnav and I need to add a photogallery with thumbnails... anyone have any advice for me? Are there any good free templates out there that could do all this for me? Or maybe some good tools?

Thanks in advance

hi all im after advice on the best way to create a vertical slide show that only changes on a page refresh

the images will be shown with a negative film as a frame that is repeated vertically



then i will use php code to show a random image inside the frame

so, which will be best using the frame as a repeated background image then having a div with the image overlapping this or manually displaying a large image that i have repeated in photoshop.

Hi, does anybody have a link that could point me in the right direction of learning about a drop down menu that is used as a search option? Such as in this site here-
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So basically the viewer can enter one of two fields to bring back the relevant info, in this case either a designer or price range option. I've not done one of these before, but think it would be useful on my site! advice appreciated, thanks!!

Hello, first time visiting here~

Found the forum through Google after spending the majority of the day searching the net for info on how to do what I need to do. Some preliminary searching here didn't turn up any answers, so time to get the first post out of the way. :3

My cousin runs a magazine sales business, and he's put me in charge of online ordering and such. Prior to me coming, he had a wix.com site set up, and while I'm not a fan of flash based sites (media has its place) I ran with it.

I've run into an issue today though. Within the next week, my cousin plans on going through another supplier for his magazines, and with the new supplier is coming a nearly 3X increase to our product line (84 mags to 231 mags!).

Prior to this change, I used Wix's eCommerce store and just dealt with their lack of a search bar or anything, and setup the arrows to skim the eleven pages for what they want. Figured six pages in either direction was okay, but with this increase, that's asking to much of people.

So, I'm wanting to add a search box. After scouring the net for into on how to create an HTML search box that works with it, I got it working, as well as an account with www.sitelevel.com to crawl the site and populate the search. Unfortunately, Wix doesn't support one of the four ways that Google has to verify your site, so I settled on Sitelevel.

Anyways, the issue I'm facing now is creating an index of our products, since it's unable to crawl flash content. According to a Wix member on their forums, creating text entries with the products, and links embedded in them to the products, you can create an index. However, I've been unable to get the crawler to recognize the index. I've tried creating paragraphs, titles, and even uploading a MS Word (.doc) document and nothing has been recognized. The only thing showing are the master page names in the search results tab for sitelevel, with very little actual info in them.

I'm mainly aiming to get this search box working so that I don't have to rebuild this site elsewhere. I know that flash sites have a lot of limitations, but any help at all in being able to make this work would be soooo appreciated. It's been a real headache, even more so since I'm not the best with HTML. This post may not even belong within the HTML section, I wasn't sure if the flash section was more appropriate or not. But since the element I'm needing help implementing is HTML, I figured I'd give it a go.

As an extra, if its possible, would it be possible to make it so the return of the search is displayed in another HTML box on the Wix site? I'm unsure of how to link the results to a window, or if I'm stuck with opening a new window for the results.

You can visit our site to get a visual idea of what I'm looking to do. I'm wanting the search box to appear over the last magazine on the top right row, and upon return of the search, to be taken to a new page where the search bar is in the same location as well as the cart and such on the right, with the space where the magazines were populated with a window with the search results. Clicking on a result will go straight to that products page (rather than the index, I'm unsure of how to do that just yet) all without leaving the site.

I know its quite the wall of text above for a first post, but any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.