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Posted by LJ Farris
LJ Farris
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What combination or platform would I use to build...

I am looking to build a website which is an online database which has a number of functionalities to it.

Basically, the site I would like to develop would need to have the following capabilities:

  • Import/Export .xls spreadsheets with crosschecking for duplicate entries/update fields.
  • Relevant ability to connect the entry with multiple images
  • Static HTML pages with informational content
  • Individual pages based on shared CSS and HTML containing the following:
  • Tagging across multiple entries, eg: Tags: white, house, plant, etc.
  • Multiple fields containing text content
  • Multiple images in each page.
  • Online backend for ease of data entry and maintenance so people can login and make changes.
  • Database containing the data/images
  • Google Translate compatible Facebook/Twitter and Social media sharing of the site and individual pages
  • Mobile compatible
  • Responsive web-design

Would Ruby on Rails be too complex a code-base for something like this? Or would I look at amalgamating something like HTML, PHP and CSS? Or should I consider another alternative?

Thank you in advance!

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