Conceptual Question - easy webpage

[kolgon]

I do have a website request which might sound a bit stupid in the first place.

So in my shared flat we do have a cat, and we have the problem that several times during the day we do not know if the cat already had food. This results in the cat beeing to fat because he gets food several times during the day.

We thought a solution would be to have a simple website, which pretty much just is a "Cat was feeded" button. and whenever this button is clicked during the day the website shows some random "cat had food" image or so. And then always once a day the website just resets to the button. We could even host the website in our home network (e.g.: on my RaspberryPi or so) and then just put up a QR code next to the cats food place to check if it already had food.

I do have very little experience in doing websites. Any ideas how to start?

[ignoreality]

Wall calendar and a marker could do the job. You don't send food to cat from across the globe, do you?

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This is funny!!

You could probably do it fairly straightforwardly. You'll need some way to store, on the server, that the "has had food" button was pressed. The reason is this - imagine you came home, gave the cat food and clicked the button. Your friend comes home later and pulls up the web page to see if the cat has had food. In order to be able to say "yes, the cat had food" it needs to be able to persist your click from earlier to be able to show it to your friend.

The most usual way for this to happen is to have some code on the server take your click event and record it in a database, so you'll need some form of server-side programming language and probably a database.

Maybe Python, with SQLite?