On how to create a website like this?

http://www.virtualsportzcenter.com

I am interested in the way basketball scores are reported.

How would I go about creating a site similar to it?

Is there something online I can use to replicate this site please?


Thanks in advance, all advise welcome.
Sorry if this is a noob post, just desperate now.

Please?

Tom it's a little hard to tell you how to build a site in one post. That might be why people haven't answered.

The site you linked to is built using a combination of HTML and CSS. My first question for you would be how familiar are you with HTML and CSS? A good background in both is going to help you build sites in general.

If you don't mind sharing your experience in building sites and the languages you know I'll be happy to point you to some sources that will help develop a site like the one you linked to.

Im studying multimedia computing at university, however only in my first year.

I know some HTML and CSS.

It's basically just getting a site that is all automatic.

People can give scores back and then league tables are updated automatically.

www.yourfifaleague.net

i want a site similiar to that but that looks better.

Basically on that site you can:

Register, then apply to be a manager of a team, e.g. Arsenal.

Once the admin authorise you as a captain, you can then look for team members(other registered users)

Managers can then send a contract to the player, basically to accept to be on there team, once accepted they show on the team, e.g ARSENAL

Once a team is full you cant add anymore.

You then play your matches when scheduled by the admin on Xbox Live.

Once the matches have been played the scores are then fed back into a form which, when both teams have submitted the scores, the league table automatically updates.

I want something like this, however for NBA rather than Football(Soccer)

Once I get the back end of the site running as in all automatic, I am sure I can sort how it looks etc by myself its just all the coding to achieve this that I cant get my head around.

And none of this can be done using HTML. So...

... If you would let us know what you are proposing to code the back end in,

I would suggest getting host, and installing drupal, or some other CMS (content management system).

That will do a lot of the hard work for you.

You can get a CMS to handle some of the things you want like the login, but some of what you want sounds like it's going to require a little custom programming.

Like Chris said the backend won't be HTML and CSS. At a minimum you're going to need a server side language and a database. I use PHP/MySQL, but it's not your only choice. I'm not sure how familiar you are with server side languages and databases, but the first step is a crash course in both.

I'm going to guess you would go the PHP/MySQL route (and again you don't have to). There are plenty of books that teach both together. It's a good way to learn since each is more useful in combination with the other.

There are plenty of tutorials online as well.

The last part where the league scores are updated sounds like it would just require a form and when submitted the form updates the database. The league tables displayed on the site will be reading from the database. Neither is hard to do, but you do need to know the basics of a server side language and how that language interacts with a database.

The login and registration system is in many ways the same. It's a combination of taking input form the user and reading and writing to databases. There are plenty of tutorials online to create that functionality and most any book should cover the basics as well.

As for the rest again it's all about reading and writing to databases. The how will be in the details of the way you want things set up.

First step in all of this is learning a server side programming language and a database and how the two interact.

Originally Posted by MikeNumbers1

I would suggest getting host, and installing drupal, or some other CMS (content management system).

That will do a lot of the hard work for you.

also suggest you installing a cms

tom, the site you are reffering takes more than just css/ html. it requires database connection, and a good server side scripting language like php...