Dust Dreamer asked:


Mainly, I need someone to tell me where to start. Once I get going, I can probably figure it out.
The end goal is to have a listing of books for sale that looks somewhat like the rest of my website (here: http://fiendconsulting.com ). I currently have just under 200 books listed in a spreadsheet. I can list them individually, making them look the way I want, using the PayPal shopping cart.
However, listing 200 books individually isn’t a fun prospect. And then I’d have to go through and remove the sold ones by hand; an even less fun idea.
I know I should be able to list these in a database of some sort, have a code that picks up the information from the database, and then generates a page of book listings by order of Subject, Author, Title, ISBN, Price, etc.

I can think about it in theory, but I really have no idea where to start. Or am I crazy? Help?

I’m not afraid of coding my own, but I’ve never worked with databases. Absolutely eager to learn.