I am about to start work on a website for this online gaming league I run. Sense the participants of the league would like to see where they are in the points series, and I do not want to update the points on my computer and then go to my site and update them after every event, I am looking into databases for the website. The database is basically to hold all of the user information of who is in the league, their points, and what place they are in. I have not used databases before, so I am right now studying them. I have installed mysql, but it seems as it it doesn't like me. I follow the quick reference on their site and I do the commands it says to start the server, but it never recognizes it as a command to start the server. I'll keep on trying though and studying different things. Any suggestions from y'all?

Also, is their really a best way to make this sort of site? I have the Express Edition of Visual Web Developer, so I am thinking about using ASP with C#. I have not used ASP before, so I will be learning that as well. Any suggestions here?

Any suggestions period would be awesome!