Build Ecommerce Website to Master Django and Python

Build a responsive Bootstrap navbar with a collapsible menu, dropdown categories, a search form, and a Font Awesome brand icon.

Create a static hero image in static/image and embed it in the home template's block content, using a container-fluid row and set the image width to 100 percent.

Display product thumbnails using bootstrap's grid system beneath the hero image and render eight cards with images, titles, and prices using a for loop.

Repurpose the about template to build the product detail page, rendering image, title, price, and description with an add-to-cart button and css styling.

Move navigation and footer into separate templates and render them with include syntax to improve readability, then enhance the footer with RSS styling and a dark background.

Create category and product models in Django, define fields and a foreign key relationship, implement image handling with pillow, register models in admin, and apply migrations to enable data management.

Render all products on the home page by querying the database and display each product's name, price, and thumbnail, with category slug filtering.

Learn to display categories in the navbar using a Django context processor that supplies categories to templates, registers it in settings, and link to category and all products pages.

Display product details by loading a product via category slug and product slug in Django, and render name, price, stock, and add-to-cart; use reverse for the detail URL.

Configure url patterns to prevent admin conflicts by prefixing category and product slugs with a meaningful identifier, such as category, and verify the changes in the browser.

Design the Django cart view with URL patterns and a cart template, using a two-column Bootstrap layout for product list and total, plus update icons for quantity control.

Customize the ecommerce cart view by styling the cart template with a dedicated cart.css file, defining class selectors and adjusting header font size and background colors, while icons turn gray.

Build a Django cart system by creating cart and cart item models, persisting the cart in the session, and implementing add-to-cart and cart detail with subtotal and total calculations.

Implement cart management in Django: enforce stock checks on add, show item counts in the navigation bar, and enable plus, minus, and trash actions in cart views.

Configure Stripe in a Django app, use test and live keys, integrate checkout, and create customers and charges to verify payments on the Stripe dashboard.

Customize the Django admin to display product fields like name, price, stock, and availability with inline editing, auto-generate slugs for products and categories, and show five items per page.

Create order and order item models in Django, including token, total, and optional email and billing fields, with items listing product name, quantity, price, plus an order foreign key.

Create an order from cart items by saving billing and shipping details to the order and order item models, update stock, and clear the cart; admin views show order details.

Design a Django thank you page that shows the order id, passes order details from the view to a thank you template, and configures url patterns for post-checkout display.

Style the stripe pay button on the cart page with CSS, setting margin bottom, height to 36px, and font to rubato sans serif at 16px for improved usability and appearance.

Create a Django sign up form by extending the user creation form to include first name, last name, and email, saving to the user model and assigning the customer group.

Master advanced form rendering with Django crispy forms and bootstrap to style signup forms, configure settings, and manage user accounts through the admin dashboard.

Learn to implement user authentication in Django using built-in login forms, validate credentials with authenticate, and navigate users between sign in, sign up, and home pages.

Learn to build an authenticated user order history view in Django by retrieving orders from the logged-in user email, rendering them in an order history template, and wiring URL routes.

Create an authenticated django order detail page that renders order and items, displays billing and shipping, totals, and payment info, with a print option.

Show how to implement a basic Django search by extracting the query from the request's text input, filtering products by name or title, and rendering results on the home page.

Learn to install and configure the Mailgun service to send emails, including creating a free account, domain verification, DNS records (TXT, MX, CNAME), and SMTP credentials.

Learn to send customer order emails with Mailgun in a Django app by creating a send_email function, rendering a dynamic order template with items, and testing end-to-end.

Build a Django contact form that collects name, subject, email, and message, validates submissions, and emails the form data via Mailgun, with a dedicated contact success page.

Learn to customize a Django contact form with widget tweaks, replacing crispy forms, using render_field for flexible fields, and building a Bootstrap card layout with icons.