HTML - Ranking Etc

Bear with me while I attempt to explain something I'd like to create. Note that I have previous HTML knowledge, but have not used this knowledge in a handful of years. I'm not sure how things are done these days.

I'd like to create a very simple list of entries which are ranked according to a score. This list would also contain an entry function which would allow me to make additional entries - entries which are automatically sorted and ranked into the current listing.
If possible, I would like to gather these scores from Metacritic.com. This way, all scores for all entries in the list are always up to date as well as automatically retrieved for new entries.

I am specifically aiming for simplicity here. Will I need something beyond HTML? Should I be looking into PHP? I am not very familiar with PHP coding.
How should I get started?

Any and all suggestions and/or help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.

Hi: I hope someone out there can help me.

My son and daughter created a website for me and now I have taken it over. I have been desperately trying to figure out why it doesn't come up in the search engines. Yesterday while working on the website, I decided to try a page rank checker and received the following message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING in /home/rankthi1/public_html/tools/nusoap.php on line 2264

As far as I can tell, there isn't a line 2264 (I counted them). I'm unfamiliar with php. Any guidance, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Vicki