Hello, My husband and I have built our own website from scratch for selling antiques and collectibles. We have about 60 pages so far and have been looking at adding a site search feature. We understand there are a couple of ways (at least) to do this. One is an outside host such as zoom or fusionbot or picosearch, etc. We have looked at those.

We want one that will display photos of our items with a brief description of the item and the price. We DON'T want it to look like a Google search result in lines of text only. We've seen the type of search results we are looking for on other people's sites but cannot figure out how they did it.

Anyone have any ideas? I apologize in advance for not knowing all the proper terms but we are totally new at this. Thanks.

What you describe sounds like the search function of a complete ecommerce package, rather than a standalone search function.

You may be right as we have seen some ecommerce packages with searches that deliver that type of result. But we have built our site so we don't need their package and couldn't afford it anyway.
Since our ISP does not support CGI or PHP we believe we have to use an outside host. I was hoping one of the free ones could provide the results we want with little or no advertising but it is not looking that way.

Your host seems to be using IIS. Surely there's a good search package for that server. No doubt it'll cost you though, as few good things are free for IIS.

You may wish to investigate a Unix/Apache based host, if only for the welter of free and decent search packages that are available for it.

Where is the site? Without looking at it, it's hard to say anything really.

If you have generated lots of html pages manually, it will be difficult to find a plug-in option to give fully customised search results. If your host service doesn't provide any scripting at all (cgi, php etc), then in the long term it will be difficult to increase functionality.

Thanks for your thoughts.
The site in question is

www.yosemiteantiques.com