Search Using Multiple Drop Menu Options

Hi Guys
I MIGHT be getting the gig re-designing this site:
http://www.merlinmotorcity.ie
If I do, part of it is a search facility here:
http://www.merlinmotorcity.ie/UsedCars/
I have never done searches with so many criteria, in fact I
have only ever donw them using a text box! I generally use WA
Database Search, but at the minute that's down due to Vista
compatibility issues. So, does anyone know of a good tutorial I can
use to show me how to build a search like the one above?
Or, even better, an extension for building them...?
Thanks
Andy

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, he eats every day…
winabe23, you joined this month—probably because you were having trouble with CSS and HTML and you have certainly come to the right place.
I'm going to send you to several places I have found helpful in understanding how you can make drop-down menus in CSS without the need for JavaScript—though JS may be necessary for certain older browsers that do not understand pseudo classes and may be necessary for the blind or keyboard navigation.
CSS Wizardry has a great tutorial here.
Line25 has one here.
For those who don't want to have to wrangle code, here is a menu generator from PureCSSMenu.
Here's a page by Eric Meyer who describes how the concept works.
And here is a video tutorial by "zorro30mum." It's in two parts, but there is a link to Part 2 below Part 1.
The reason why I am posting all of these links in my answer is because you're using Spry. And Spry has been found wanting by Adobe and they are deprecating and abandoning it.
The Spry framework is an open source Ajax framework that Adobe developed. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. On August 29th 2012, Adobe handed over Spry to github. If you want to help github develop Spry, there is a site for that, but I'm thinking you're not a JavaScript developer.
I would recommend you pay a little more attention and time to Ajax, which is not deprecated and not discontinued. It allows you to do client-side triggers for server-side code. But that's if you want to do work in JavaScript, XML and a server-side language, like Cold Fusion, php or ASP.
But in the meantime, the tutorials above will get you into understanding how this whole menuing stuff is done in CSS and give you the understanding necessary to do simple stuff, like changing the color of a background for a drop-down.
I hope this helps you make great websites!
-Mark

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