Hi all,

I am just starting to put together a web site for my brother, the basics of the site such as the layout, HTML and CSS I am fine with and ready to go.

There is one aspect of this site which I'm not sure what is the best method to approach,

Basically, he has a garage full (in excess of 3000 items) of obsolete car parts that he wants to list on his web site (database?) that he can add to and update himself, and enable visitors to the web site to search for relevant items, then email him or call him to arrange purchase (not done through the web site).

What I had in mind was:

When he wants to add items to the inventory, he is able to select the car manufacturer from a drop down menu, then he selects a model, then inputs a part number, and a description, and finally uploads a representative image.
(He is not able to program or code websites, I would make a small program available to him to do this)

Hopefully I can set this up in a certain format so all of the items he would list would share the same style, such as available character space, image size and border, etc.

The visitor would then have a similar drop down menu available to them in which as they would select their requirements from the drop down menus and also type in a part number if they have one, then when they click search, this would list the corresponding items on the page that are within his database along with a small clickable thumbnail image.

Luckily, he is in no rush what so ever, more of a big learning curve and project for me really, the question I am asking is what languages in addition to HTML and CSS will I need to study to make this work?

Is this a job for Javascript and MySQL or something like that?

Any help to point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated so I can get on with my studying!

Anyway, I hope this has made some sense in what we are trying to achieve,
Thanks for your time all,

Best regards,

Foxhole