g1smd - 9:02 am on Mar 5, 2011 (gmt 0)

HTML helps you lay out the content on the page, and style it.

To have a voting system, you will need to run some PHP code on the server to deal with the counting. That code will either need to store data in a file on the server, or it will need a dash of mySQL code to store and retrieve the data in a database. The code will also need to be protected from page refreshes artificially increasing the vote: by letting each IP address vote only once per day, setting cookies etc.

Javascript is NOT the solution to the problem as that runs individually in each person's browser.