Advanced searching option and product display layout

[johnbiggscr]

We are in the process of designing a new site that will allow a selection drop down box search.
In our current design there will be 3 drop down boxes.
The first will allow the user to select a brand, the second box will then populate to include the sizes associated with that brand, the third will then populate to include the category of that size.
Has anyone included this type of searching to their shopsite site? We are trying to determine whether the search options within shopstie would allow a smooth use of such a system or whether we need to look at some kind of drop in module instead.

We are also hoping to display items on a page split into different sections, most likely in a matrix layout. For example: Brand A showing picture of category A and matrix of category A products, then a break and Brand A showing category B picture and matrix of category B products. I would assume that I would just assign the products to a page and have multiple Loop statements containing IF comparison code, each one a different type, in order to achieve this? Has anyone also done this type of layout that can provide advice?



(we are using shopsite pro 10sp2)