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The website will capture information from the seller including a picture and the buyer will be able to search the data and view the individual information.
Is there a cms that will allow me to do this or is it possible to do it via HTML.
All tips gratefully received and if I were to outsource it, how do I phrase the request?
if I were to outsource it, how do I phrase the request
You would explain, in writing, what you wished to achieve and leave it to the supplier to produce a solution to the need.
Matt
Does the supplier work in my webspace or do they create the web front and data backend and give it to me to upload myself.
You cannot do it in static HTML.
You will need a hosting account that gives you access to MySQL or some other database, as well as a scripting language.
If you have somebody do this for you, let them recommend the kind of hosting package you need.
They should first develop in their space and demonstrate. I would recommend that you have them then set it up on your host.
I echo the previous comment, "just tell them what you want it to do". Wireframes are useful. ("Wireframes" is just a $1 word meaning "rough drawings of what you want the screens to look like").
Insist that they use standard, widely-used technologies. For example, LAMP. (Linux, Apache, Mysql, PHP/Perl). I'd avoid Microsoft (.ASP, .net) technology unless they can give some very good reason. (And, IMO, "that's the technology I know" is NOT a good reason, though you can thank them for their honesty and move on...)
WebmasterWorld is a good place to ask questions once a developer makes a proposal. While it may be Greek to you, we can help you make sense of it.
Just one more acronym to throw at you - what you need is basically CRUD. Not an insult: Create, Read, Update, Delete.
