Can anyone advise - as a novice is there an easy way to create a website with a search facility or should I employ a professional?

The website will be a sell your own house site and I want people to be able to use varying criteria to search the properties.

Thanks

It's not too hard. There's tonnes of free scripts out there that will help.

First one I came across was this: http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/

Does your web space have either PHP or ASP scripting support? If so, let us know which and we can suggest a few more scripts.

Here is a good resource for features and comparisons: www.searchtools.com

My favorite is freefind (http://www.freefind.com).

Here is a web-software that I sell that accomplishes all of the goals that you intend to achieve.

http://techpronow.com/sub/realty.php

You can see a demo here:

http://www.techpronow.com/realty2/


Otherwise, I recommend Xoops.