ShakyJake
<Donor>
I want to create a website that's essentially a usenet indexer for movies.
As an example, most movie and TV-show sites (like Nzbs.org and others) have Title, Actor, Director, Genre, etc. etc. filters. Plus, nice little coverart and scene clips.
My question is, which technologies do I need to learn to create something like the Nzbs.org? Like, how does one effectively access external resources to query for movie and actor info to build up one's database? Where does the coverart and screenclips come from? (they do not appear to be part of the newsgroup archive posting).
As for my own capabilities, I'm pretty well practiced in C# and confident I can create a website using ASP.NET with a MSSQL database. But I'm real fuzzy on how to collect information from outside resources for actor, directory, and movie details.
Now, someone is going to say "you'll never create something as nice as existing sites" -- and that's probably true. But this is more of personal project i want to do to help in learning HTML5/CCS3/JS, plus other various web technologies. It'll never be something "commercial" (not to mention it's illegal anyway so won't be public).
As an example, most movie and TV-show sites (like Nzbs.org and others) have Title, Actor, Director, Genre, etc. etc. filters. Plus, nice little coverart and scene clips.
My question is, which technologies do I need to learn to create something like the Nzbs.org? Like, how does one effectively access external resources to query for movie and actor info to build up one's database? Where does the coverart and screenclips come from? (they do not appear to be part of the newsgroup archive posting).
As for my own capabilities, I'm pretty well practiced in C# and confident I can create a website using ASP.NET with a MSSQL database. But I'm real fuzzy on how to collect information from outside resources for actor, directory, and movie details.
Now, someone is going to say "you'll never create something as nice as existing sites" -- and that's probably true. But this is more of personal project i want to do to help in learning HTML5/CCS3/JS, plus other various web technologies. It'll never be something "commercial" (not to mention it's illegal anyway so won't be public).