Does anybody have an suggestions for a stepping off point to create a "drill down" type search navigation tool for ecommerce? What I am looking for is when a user searches our website for "Red," they get search results with a list on the left side of ways to narrow their search. It is pretty common on ecommerce sites but sadly, our site currently just searches through product descriptions using a sql query and displaying the results if there are any. We have been looking at vendors but they are really expensive and I don't like giving 3rd parties too much control.
For some reason, we do not have Verity installed or it is not installed correctly. We are running CF 8 on Linux servers. I have been looking into getting it installed but I am not sure if that will help my situation other than providing me with a better index search.
I was hoping to modify an existing script or module so I don't have to lock myself away and try to code it from scratch.
Thanks!