hi guyz, greetings to me webmasters. plz every1, i'm workingon a design and i need to put some alphabetical list with so many options under each alphabet, but i don't want more than 5 pages for the site. what should i do and how do i go about it?
thanking you all for a favourable response.
thanks y'all.

Depending on wat type of site, I foresee no more than 3 pages:

1) Home page welcoming ppl and telling them what to do
2) search page
3) results page

From how you have posed the request, I will assume you don't know ajax in which case it would require only 2 pages so letz go with the above scenario. You will need a backend language (PHP, JSP, etc) for this to work though.

On your search page, you could have a dropdown of all alphabets or provide the alphabet listing with links like so:
<a href="search-results.php?search=a">A</a>

Then when you click "A", it takes you to the search results page. From there again, there r 2 possible scenarios, again, depending on what you want to do:

1) database approach (preferred):
query the database for, in this case, "A", and display results pulled from the database OR

2) non-database approach:
Have one big search-results page with all the results, then using say, PHP, conditionally show portions of the file depending on the letter selected.

I think the database approach is better. It is easier. Will just call up ids from the table and that is it. Used something like that to do a book store catalogue spanning A - Z.

Thanks guyz, I get it, the database approach will really do the work.
Thanks a bunch, God bless.