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HTML How to Make a Website Beginning HTML and CSS Introduction to HTML and the Portfolio Project

Posted by Luan Tran
Luan Tran
1,035 Points

How to create a mind map on the web platform?

I want to create a web app like this: http://mindmapfree.com. Can I do it with Ruby on Rails or learn something else? This is where I must start from or learn other courses. Thank you!

1 Answer

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points
Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

Im not sure how much experience you have but to do something like that site, you should start off with the HTML and CSS track for the layout. After that, you will want to do the JavaScript track so you can learn how to make your sites interactive like the one above.

I checked that site's source code and could see it was made up of all html/css/javascript

Luan Tran
Luan Tran
1,035 Points

I have no experience with programming, I want to do something like that, so, I want to know where to start. I just acquire HTML, CSS and JavaScript to do it, something else to learn? Please give me some advice. Thank you!

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points
Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

what i suggest is that for now just go through the web design track to get a feel of what coding is. once you start to get comfortable and understand how the layout of websites work, then you can start learning javascript. just keep at it and you will be able to build a website like that :)

For me, when i first joined, i did the web design track for around 2 weeks, and then i started javascript/jquery after that. If you decide to learn a different language after that, it wont be that hard because the basics of javascript is present in pretty much all other scripting/programming languages. Hope this helped :)