i've decided on my website to create a clan/team for online gameplay. the games played vary across CS and Unreal and other games.

I'm quite good in HTML however i can't work out for the life of me how to set the site up. The features that i need are:

• a player roster
• high scores
• a member list
• a match update thing

i've already worked out that i'll probably need to use php for this and a mySQL database.

If everybody or anybody could help it would be much appreciated!!

(Note :: I'm not too keen on learing another language)

You may want to look into an opensource CMS solution. Content Management Systems offer things like News sections and such that can be adapted for what you're looking to do. Just change the News section to Match update and such.

Many of them are fully customizable and would allow you to setup access for other clan members to maybe even moderate certain sections of the site (whether they know HTML or not) since CMS have user admin features and WYSWIG editing.

There would be some learning curve on your part to get it all customized, depending on the system you choose. Many even have a pretty slick setup that takes alot of the work out of it for you.

Check out http://www.opensourcecms.com/ for different options. It might be a little intimidating at first, but if you get the hang of it, it will take a lot fo the headache out of maintaining an HTML site with the constant updates.

While using an open source cms is a good solution for this, you may want to work on developing a site as a side project to learn how to build dynamic sites with a server side scripting language like php. I know you don't want to learn a new language but if you really want complete control over your website and to be assured that it is completely secure then that is the best way to do it.