Please feel free to call me with questions – I know it is challenging to try to describe these things briefly.

Thanks for the clarification. I’m just not understanding the issue, it seems.

Wouldn’t this be done on the server more easily? (And more accessibly?) It looks to me similar to the results of a Google search, only with four sets of results instead of one. Wouldn’t you create the results sets server-side? You could then use your famous “multiple pages in one” JavaScript to reveal one set at a time.

I’d love to help, but don’t know Python.

I will ask our resident programmer about technology restrictions. The truth is that I don’t really know about this stuff and have no idea. I didn’t even really know what “remote scripting” meant, but just copied that out of some description that I found – so I don’t know if we need that, but I have a vague enough understanding that we probably want someone who knows a bit about that.

In terms of our requirements regarding accessibility, unobtrusiveness, and maintainability of the code well … at the moment the site we need this particular code for isn’t the most modern, up-to-date site around, but it’s not archaic and table-ridden either. I think we would love to work with someone that can accomplish the highest standard of coding, but we would be ok relaxing the quest for perfection a bit for projects such as these that are being used on less up-to-date sites if it meant saving significant time and money.

As to payment, I think we would probably pay the programmers hourly rate, or we would take a bid from the programmer for the job. I actually have no idea how long such a thing might take – hours or days? So I’m looking for some cost proposals, and hopefully I get more than one so I can evaluate the range.

But more important than cost is the solution itself and the hope of establishing an ongoing relationship with a programmer that meets our needs, is able to communicate well, and can respond within a reasonable amount of time to requests. Someone who just seems cool to work with would be nice too. ;~)

Hope this helps. As you can see, I’m more ignorant than I’d like to admit – but that’s why I’m looking for help! Please feel free (anyone) to ask questions that would help to understand the project requirements.

Thanks!!!

Also, what are your requirements regarding accessibility, unobtrusiveness, and maintainability of the code?

Oh – and what are you prepared to pay for a suitable solution?