Need help building a trivia site

[03mach1mustang]

I'm building a trivia site but have some quesitons on the best way to handle some of problems.

I need to create a trivia game that involves pictures for each question and answer. The games would be ongoing so I would need to create some type of score board that keeps track of each players scores and automatically updates.

I would also like to build some type of banner (something players could put in their forum signatures) that is continuously updated with their current ranking, etc.

Thanks!

 

[CaldwellYSR]

None of those looked like questions...

 

[03mach1mustang]

None of those looked like questions...

I guess I should have specified further. I'm a n00b trying to build his first website and am looking for advice how to accomplish what the above.

 

[CaldwellYSR]

Well the trivia questions are going to be forms obviously. For scoreboards and things like that I would look into a CMS that has good membership compatibility. I think wordpress would probably suffice and I know there are quiz plugins for wordpress.

 

[ronaldroe]

You're probably better off going custom on something like this. Kinda sux, I know, but you would be basically shoe-horning things into WP that it's not meant to do.

 

[03mach1mustang]

Well the trivia questions are going to be forms obviously. For scoreboards and things like that I would look into a CMS that has good membership compatibility. I think wordpress would probably suffice and I know there are quiz plugins for wordpress.

Will do, thanks!

Also, is your username in reference to the town Caldwell, TX?

You're probably better off going custom on something like this. Kinda sux, I know, but you would be basically shoe-horning things into WP that it's not meant to do.

I don't have the funds to hire anyone. Any idea I come up with that can't be done myself is going to have to get scrapped.

Another question, does WP have an option that allows for categorization of things with a search feature? So if I put 1,000 images on a website, can I list a few adjective about each and then offer a coinciding search feature on the website?

 

[CaldwellYSR]

Also, is your username in reference to the town Caldwell, TX?

No it's my last name and a slogan from the university I went to.

You should listen to what Ronald says. He's much more knowledgable about web design than I am and has alot more experience. I mentioned WP because it's something I have experience with that I think I could make work, that doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. There are other CMS's that might better suite you for this kind of project. Just out of curiosity are you planning to develop this yourself? Meaning are you writing the code to make this happen?

 

[03mach1mustang]

No it's my last name and a slogan from the university I went to.

You should listen to what Ronald says. He's much more knowledgable about web design than I am and has alot more experience. I mentioned WP because it's something I have experience with that I think I could make work, that doesn't mean it's the best way to do it. There are other CMS's that might better suite you for this kind of project. Just out of curiosity are you planning to develop this yourself? Meaning are you writing the code to make this happen?

I was going to try to create it without code. Will the Adobe Muse program or anything similar make a decent looking site?

Sorry for my n00bish questions, just trying to see how I can make this work.

 

[CaldwellYSR]

I was going to try to create it without code.

Oh.... I see. Well I can't really help you any more. Web design requires code. I don't want to be mean about it or anything but I thought you were just trying to plan a course of action. If you really want to make this happen you should hire someone that writes code to make it happen. This is something you really won't be able to do without code. Sorry to have mislead you.

 

[03mach1mustang]

Oh.... I see. Well I can't really help you any more. Web design requires code. I don't want to be mean about it or anything but I thought you were just trying to plan a course of action. If you really want to make this happen you should hire someone that writes code to make it happen. This is something you really won't be able to do without code. Sorry to have mislead you.

How difficult is it to learn code?

 

[CaldwellYSR]

How difficult is it to learn code?

It isn't difficult at all. It just takes time and effort. If you're really motivated to learn for this project you want to do then at least know that this will probably take a month or so before you're even ready to get a barebones project put together. Even longer to get something that you'll really be happy with. But if you learn it and do it yourself then it will be a very rewarding process.

If you have the motivation and the time it's a really simple process. There is so much good (and bad) information to be found on the web. I'll post a few links below to some sites that I use alot for tutorials.

Good one for learning at the beginning: W3Schools

Net Tuts+
CSS Tricks
Web Designer Wall

 

[03mach1mustang]

It isn't difficult at all. It just takes time and effort. If you're really motivated to learn for this project you want to do then at least know that this will probably take a month or so before you're even ready to get a barebones project put together. Even longer to get something that you'll really be happy with. But if you learn it and do it yourself then it will be a very rewarding process.

If you have the motivation and the time it's a really simple process. There is so much good (and bad) information to be found on the web. I'll post a few links below to some sites that I use alot for tutorials.

Good one for learning at the beginning: W3Schools

Net Tuts+
CSS Tricks
Web Designer Wall

Awesome, I'll look over the links.

Thanks for your help man.