Hello, I have no knowledge on websites/programming/coding/ect.

So, I wanted to make a website like futhead.com but for the video game the show. I was wondering if I entered the stats of each player, example Hitting, power, fielding stats into Microsoft Works Database or Office Excel. Then make a website with Search Feature that would pop a player up and you click on him to see his stats.

Just something real simple no other the top graphics.
Example in the website above you type in Messi into the search field click on the player and his stats come up.

I'm looking for someone to say yup thats possible and i'll get to work right away or no you need x and y then you can do it.


Thank you

Of course it's possible, but not with Excel. You'll store the data in a SQL database. This is a pretty monumental task for someone with zero webdev knowledge.

Ok, thank you for taking your time to answer this question Splashpot. Maybe, I can team up with someone to do the dev side and I work the sales, advertising side.

A website is more than just what a user sees.

As far as websites go, I'd say that's a pretty simple idea with a clearly defined goal so you could try going for it yourself if you want to learn.

Start by designing a database that can store all the information.

Then a page that relays the information stored for each player.

Then lastly your search feature.

Or just do the odin project. Should only take several hundred hours to complete

Shameless link incoming :P - http://www.aliayoub.com/posts/ruby-r...the-mean-stack

Ditched The Odin Project before finishing - going to redo a personal projects beginning stages with js - If you are not entirely certain you want Web specifically as your focus for some time and more specifically RoR - better get some fundamentals from TOP that they have organized and move on - many have said - I'm another now convinced novice.

Curious what kind of intermediate /advanced stuff you found difficult with RoR.

May very well have been beginner material - but altering already created resources was pretty frustrating - for example creating a User model then altering it to function without required passwords and then having to switch back.

Could've simply created a Subscriber resource instead and separated the two. Don't have much to compare it to anyways however - guess the main point was at a certain point you have to dig deeper to accomplish your ends - and I felt like had to make a decision regarding longer term development goals - if don't picture myself working with Rails as a mainstay in the future not interested in pushing past a basic functional foundation.

Out of all the "my first app" things I've read in this forum, this is the most doable for a new programmer. This sounds like a single-page app, and honestly, the database could be a single table as well. At this point, you can save a .csv, then bulk load.

To start, you don't need to do any AJAX-y stuff. You just need a bit of code for an input box. The query is passed to the database, then the result is returned and displayed in a new div. Very simple and straight-forward. No frameworks needed.

After you have that simple stuff out of the way, you can work on text search, which is pretty small potatoes because you are only searching someone's last name. At this point, you really only need Levenshtein and perhaps soundex.

After that, you can make it Ajax-y so you don't have a page reload on each query.

Of course, you want to learn a little about security, sanitation, and stuff like that.

Of course, the more you get into it, the more you learn. You can start making the database more relational, etc. You can also look into a framework, but I've always preached going sans-framework so you can get a good view of the "magic" under the hood, see why many of the ideas make sense after you've invented a few wheels, seen the cluster**** that is web security, get a grip on manually managing routes, POST / GET, etc. This is a perfect project for this.