Help? idiot with an idea?

hello all

I've been a frontpage wienie for about 5 years, never really took the time to "learn" anything useful? I use godaddy and ipower for my webhosts ...

I really would like to make a web page that is CLEAN, that is not stuck in the 90s, and one that will allow data entry and store it?

I have a rinky dink user application/form that does show the results on a page (about the max extent of my abilities)

fyi, I volunteer for all the pages that I help host (high school wrestling) ...

my idea would be to create a tournament bracket system that will update without FTP? obviously, I'd like to use this feature for every tournament (recognition will help wrestlers get noticed)

thanks for any help or thoughts?

my email has my webpage

Hey buddy, sounds like you're ready to upgrade to a real database and some light web programming. It would take some studying, but it wouldn't take long before you had some progress. Still, it will definitely take some patience on your part.

Things you will need to check out

1) CSS / HTML. FrontPage automates the design of things. It sounds like you want to skip Front Page and do some hands-on design.

2) SQL Database - Godaddy and iPower offer SQL databases, probably included in the package you already have. That's where you store data.

3) Web Programming -- PHP and ASP are popular introductory Web Programming Languages. Basically, it takes the data you input into forms and puts it in the database. It also shuttles data back from the database for presenting in HTML / CSS

You can do it, basically you need to start with a html mock up of the information that you want to display.

See first things first, without planning how you are going to store you data.. or WHAT data you are going to store, you're lost from the onset. So first things first.. what info do you want to store?

The obvious things are about the wrestlers themselves

WrestlerID
First Name
Last Name
High School
Height
Weight
Grade
Number of matches ?
Number of Wins ?
Number of Losses ?

Then what?

Further, you gotta start thinkin!

For instance, you don't want to store the same high school name OVER and OVER for each wrestler at that school,
so you store the school names seperatly and use the ID of that school in the wrstlers table.

It's gets confusing.

What else do you want to store?