help creating a drop down list for xara website design

[fyneart]

hi looking for a little help/direction.
i have a potential client asking to make a directory type website. this will entail three drop down lists so that people can search for a business. the first drop down for example will list all council areas in england. from that list will filter the next drop down to towns etc etc.

how do i implement such a thing into an xara mx premium web design?

any help gratefully received.

[Drwyd]

48 counties multiplied by 20 towns multiplied by 30 business types comes to about 28,800 pages

[fyneart]

ok,not such a good example.

what the client wants is for his website users to be able to find services incl. accommodation, places to eat, services etc that are available at certain locations as determined by him. These locations being places that he and his colleagues have to visit in the course of their business. Say for example they were BT engineers, having to visit different Exchanges to carry out repairs.... where do they stay, what amenities are within proximity to those sometimes remote Exchanges. This website will offer the BT Engineers a way of finding these services and giving feedback to other BT Engineers on how good that service was.

The client will make money by offering advertising on his site to businesses that wish to show their services to these Engineers.

Thus the lists of services will not have every town or business type listed. The list will no doubt grow but in the first instance will be limited to things like accommodation, local pubs, restaurants and that type of thing.

If it were me i would use yell.com but the client wants a more specific experience for there 'Engineers'

hope that explains it better.

so what i need is a database behind the scenes that is searchable for the location and services that this website will contain.

like a scaled down version of http://www.yell.com/, i can see other uses for this database idea and would really like to find out how to do this and do it with an xara design.

thanks

[Big Frank]

You're better off choosing an existing software application and simply doing the graphics in Xara to fit into their templating system. This is not up Xara's street at all.

[fyneart]

must be someone who has made a similar xara website?

[gwpriester]

Yell is a search box, is that what you want? Or do you want a drop down list of options?

Here's a page of drop down list modules you can look at and see if there is one that might work for what you need
https://www.google.com/search?q=drop...ient=firefox-a

Also, as Frank suggested you might be better off with a web design product that can create drop down lists natively. NetObjects Fusion can do this and has some similarities to Xara though it is not as flexible.

Also JotForm, included in the Widgets > From Widgets section of WD can create drop down lists as part of the form. You might be able to create a form that is just a drop down list. But if so, you will probably only be able to use one per page.

[gwpriester]

OK, this is from the Xara Whisperer (who happens to live at Xara Users)

He's looking for a mini yellow pages which queries a database and returns
the results, not a chance. BF is right, not up Xara's street at all or TG
and XU.

But a simple drop-down menu list is done like so:
<!-- Copy and Paste this code into the (HEAD) of Website tab -->

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!-- Begin
function jumpBox(form){
var URL =
document.form.site.options[document.form.site.selectedIndex].value;
window.location.href = URL;
}
// End -->
</SCRIPT>

<!-- Copy and Paste this code into the (BODY) of a Placeholder -->

<FORM NAME="form">
<SELECT NAME="site" size=1 onChange="javascript:jumpBox()">
<OPTION VALUE="">Go to....
<OPTION VALUE="page1.htm">Item 1
<OPTION VALUE="page2.htm">Item 2
<OPTION VALUE="page3.htm">Item 3
<OPTION VALUE="page4.htm">Item 4
<OPTION VALUE="page5.htm">Item 5
<OPTION VALUE="page6.htm">Item 6
</SELECT>
</FORM>


He can google for on-line menu list generators for more complex (colours
ect) and add the code similarly to Web Designer.
Such as: http://www.poqbum.com/menugenerator/index.php

But connecting to a database? Forget it it.. Go to other software.

[fyneart]

But connecting to a database? Forget it it.. Go to other software.

good stuff you guys thanks