HTML5 website setup question Options

[d-tec]

Right, i'll try and keep this brief. I'm installing a Digital Signage system of which i already have a hardware/software solution. It will be in an A and E waiting area and the staff need to be able to change the waiting displayed time on the screen.

It would be fairly time consuming for staff to go into the signage layout/editing software and make updates so i'm looking for a web based solution.

The signage software can display HTML5 websites (as well as media files and RSS feeds)

I've already created a Webpage with writing saying "waiting time" but next to that I intend to display the current waiting time in hours and with your help staff should be able to click on a button above or below hours to increase or decrease time(once the page updates it should update on signage player).

I have no programming knowledge and I have spent hours online looking for a solution so please if anyone has any suggestions or ideas I would be most thankfull!

If I have to I will try and get my head around the basics of programming!!

[pandy]

Afraid I don't know what a Digital Signage System is, but I'm pretty sure you can't do this with HTML, so I move the thread to the server side scripting forum.

[Brian Chandler]

I would expect that the software system that manages cases -- arrivals, triage, treatment, stuff like that -- would/could automatically generate a currect waiting time estimate. It is then only a question of getting this value to the sign system. This involves understanding enough of how each system works -- it's programming, but 99% admin. I don't think anyone can help unless you have vastly more specifics, and most of the job would be reading the various documentation.

[d-tec]

I'm sorry, perhaps I should simplify my question...
I want to make a Web page that has a large number in the middle of it and when you click above the number it would count up, and if you click below the number it would count down(ie. one click would make the number go from 1 to 2, click down and the number would go from 2 to 1.
The number would have to appear the same to anyone else viewed the website.

This post has been edited by d-tec: Mar 23 2015, 04:01 PM

[Darin McGrew]

That sounds relatively easy to program, but it will involve programming. What kinds of server-side programs can you use on your server? PHP? CGI? ASP? Java? Something else?

[d-tec]

That sounds relatively easy to program, but it will involve programming. What kinds of server-side programs can you use on your server? PHP? CGI? ASP? Java? Something else?

Thanks for your time!
I think my original post must of been misunderstood because i don't think i require any "server-side scripting"
My knowledge of how a webpage works is very poor(i'm learning though!) but what i'm visualizing is a stand alone webpage(preferably a free one like "Wix") that doesn't rely on a server or anything that can be updated by directly from clicking on it.
It could work like a voting/poll system ie. the number displayed is based on how many clicks up or down have been made.

[Frederiek]

A web page can't do anything but displaying its content. For a count up/down, you need scripting. That's why Darin asked you about that.

[d-tec]

A web page can't do anything but displaying its content. For a count up/down, you need scripting. That's why Darin asked you about that.

Thanks, i'm fast realizing i'm going to have to learn how to code!
Any recommendations for a coding/scripting tutorial site?

[pandy]

And every single page on the web relies on a server. For us to see a web page, like the one we are on now, a computer with a server software installed and running needs to serve us the files our browsers request. No way around that.

[d-tec]

Thanks for all your help everyone. i've found a PHP programming course on codeacademy.com that should help me.

[Christian J]

http://php.net/manual/en/index.php is quite good.