The best option for new users: Contribute, database, or both?

Hello Everyone,
Background:
I told my mother I would help her build a website so she can sell her artwork online. So we got CS4 Web Premium. I have been studying how to use the software for several months now. I am at the point where I made a good static website- all in .htm. Now when learning about making forms functional I have come across .php and MySQL. I am seeing the pros and cons of dynamic vs. static webpages, but I don't see them compared in a way that helps me decide which route to take. The overall mandate from my mother is that she wants a website that she can sell her art, and that will be easy for her to update the site with new items for sale and news of upcoming gallery shows. One important point is that she's a bit inept at computers and so it needs to be easy.
Questions:
Can contribute be used for updating databases, or is it mainly/ony for .html files?
Not knocking her art, but I am thinking this will be a not heavily visited website- so are there still benefits in using MySQL?
Uploading images is an important point, is that a damning mark against MySQL?
Is it even possible to sell stuff when the items viewed are static?
I guess those are the big ones I have at the moment.
Thanks for your time,
Gregg

Hi Gregg,
1. Contribute cannot be used to update databases.
2. I think it depends on how much artwork she has and how quickly it sells. Or, in other words, how often she would need to update the information.
3. I've never tried putting images into a MySQL database so I don't know.
4. Yes.
You could probably teach your mom to update static web pages in Contribute. Some of our web page editors are not very comfortable with computers, but they have found Contribute easy to use because it looks similar to Word and other word processing software. So if your mom does any kind of word processing, she can probably learn to use Contribute. However, if you think she'll have problems with it, then developing a simple php form for her to use to update a database should work.
As I said in my response to #2, whether you go with a database or Contribute (dynamic vs static) depends a lot on how much info you're dealing with. If it's a couple of dozen pieces of artwork, static web pages may be the easiest solution. But if it's in the hundreds, then a database is probably the way to go.
I hope that helps.
Kathy

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