help creating something on website

[iamnamja]

Hey guys.. IÂ’m trying to create a website for my girlfriend and myselfÂ… weÂ’re gonna be going on a diet.. and what I want to do, is be able to put our weights in daily and have some sort of a program that updates and shows a graph of our daily progress. Would this be possible to do on a website? And if so, please show me how. Thanks

 

[office politics]

http://www.mathcenter.washcoll.edu/howtograph.html
- graphing data using excel

 

[the_geekster]

Check out this website for an xhtml tutorial.
http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/

Go to this one to use css to style your web page.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

Using these you can create graphs and such.

 

[Ken11235]

Do you want a site where you modify the code daily to enter your values or do you want an online program where you enter the values, press a button, and they're automatically added to the graph?

 

[iamnamja]

hey guys... i would like to use a program, so that... for example... every day in the morning, we'll weigh ourselves, and then we both go to the website, and just input today's value, and it would update itself and the graph.. how can i go about doing that?

 

[Ken11235]

Well, you're not going to learn that easily. You should probably have a script made that would do that. You will also need webhosting.

 

[office politics]

Well, you're not going to learn that easily.

coding a website to do it would be pretty cumbersome. thats why i suggested graphing in excel. find a free file host, download/upload the file as needed.

http://ed.fnal.gov/data/life_sci/data/tutorials/excel.shtml

Step 1. Entering Data in a Worksheet

Step 2. Selecting Data to Graph

Step 3. Selecting the "Chart Wizard

Step 4. Selecting the Type of Graph

Step 5. Changing the Size of a Finished Graph

Step 6. Creating Different Types of Graphs

Conclusion: Analyzing and Interpreting the Graph

 

[iamnamja]

if i were to use excel.. that means i would have to constantly enter data, take the graph and then move it over to the website... i just throught there might be an easier way.. thanks guys

 

[Ken11235]

You could pay someone to write a script for you.

 

[iamnamja]

what would be the most appropriate language to write it in?