I have a very basic equine photography site (url can be viewed in my profile). Currently, I have a list of the horses featured on my site, plus the date of the album they appear in.

I would like to add a more suitable search feature, as there are now about 500 horses featured on the site, which loads quite slowly. I would like to develop a system by which people input a horse or jockey name, click search. If there is a photo to match the vistors search query, a list of the albums could be displayed, if not, an error message could appear.

I'm not hot on html, let alone other languages, so could anyone make any suggestions based on my previous paragraph?

Cheers,
Charlie

If you want to pretend that you have a search engine you can use Javascript script that will do the job. The data will be in an arrary.

But, I think that for that amount of data you need a database (for exp. Access) so you need to know a Server script language (for exp. ASP)