How to display retail items on multiple web pages, with the user having full control how many items per page?

How are retail website stores with tones of items created, that when someone requests a certain criteria, all the products that qualify would pop up on a page... or more then one page...and the visitor has full control how many items should appear on one page with the click of a button, or perhaps view all items on one page with a view all button?





Can this be done with basic HTML tables or/and CSS? if not what do i need to learn to be able to create such pages?





any help or advice is greatly appreciated, thanx.











here are some quick examples i grabbed off the net.





http://www.chadwicks.com/Womens-Casual-D鈥?/a>








http://www1.macys.com/catalog/index.ognc鈥?/a>








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What you want to learn involves dynamic webpages, something that can't be created with HTML and CSS alone.





HTML is the language the specifies what appears on a page. You need to learn some server side scripting languages if you want to make an online store. PHP is a great, but simple server side language that you can learn. http://php.net/





php.net might not be the best place to learn if you're a beginner, though, because it can get confusing quickly if you don't have any programming experience. Check out http://w3schools.com/ and look under ';Server Scripting'; for some great tutorials.





There are shopping cart softwares that you can use, so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel. One example is zencart.





If you want to use PHP or zencart, you will need a host that can run PHP and MySQL (a database). One host that I'm using now is http://dreamhost.com/ ($5.95/month). You get virtually unlimited disk space and bandwith because they both increase by the week. If you do end up choosing dreamhost, you can help me out by signing up via my affiliate link http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?113843 (you don't have to do this).





Generally, when you see a question mark in the URL (or a URL that looks funky), then you can bet that that page was generated dynamically via a server scripting language, rather than pre-written in HTML.

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