Creating a portfolio with Django (Beginners)

Name: Creating a portfolio with Django (Beginners)
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Have you ever wanted to create a website using Django?

Created byJaime Caetano

Last updated 11/2024

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What you'll learn

Understand the Django framework development dynamic
Create a Django project step by step approach
Learn how databases work in the Django framework
Publish a Django website to the internet

Course content

9 sections • 46 lectures • 2h 42m total length

Documentation
Section 1 documentation
Installing Miniconda4:27
We will be using Miniconda to create virtual environments and run Python.
Installing VS Code2:44
In case you don't have a text editor yet, VS code is one good option.
Creating a virtual environment and installing Django2:39
Keeps things organized and you'll thank yourself later!
Creating a Django project4:14
Finally! Let's create a Django Project.
Creating a Django app2:18
A Django app is where we do most of the code. Let's create one.
Exploring settings.py4:37
settings.py is one of those importante files. Let's study what's inside.
Running the project locally1:17
How to run a Django project locally?
Why would you create an app?4:13
Understanding a little bit more of the structure in a Django project

Documentation
Creating a table4:08
Django uses ORM (Object relational mapping). It means that databases are creating with objects.
Migrations dynamics3:20
Understand how migrations work in Django.
Configuring Media folders3:28
Configure the media files in order to upload images.
Configure Admin and add projects to the database5:33
Some images available to download that you can use to upload in the database. Is totally fine that you use your own.

Documentation0:01
Documentation from part 6 and also a summary of the Template tags
Learning a little more about class-based views2:26
How do class-based views work? How can we take advantage of them. Let's see. For now let's use TemplateView
get_contex_data & Server Template tags6:23
get_context_data is a method that we inherit from TemplateView. It's useful to send data to return extra data to the client.
Using a FOR loop Template tag to load the projects in templates3:52
Let's load all the projects in the notes.html template and see how it looks!
Restricting access to a URL2:40
In the context of this project we can use login_required to restrict access to the notes pages.
Continuing with the Portfolio4:02
Let's make some adjustments in the index.html page so we load all its static files by using template tags
Loading our projects in index.html with a ListView5:03
Let's replace the startbootstrap project with our own!
Some more useful Template tags before next section!6:21
There are many useful template tags. Let's see some more in this video.

Documentation
Creating a pythonanywhere account5:37
Exploring pythonanywhere a little bit more!1:24
Important parts of pythonanywhere
Uploading our project3:27
Bringing our portfolio to the internet!
Creating a virtual env in pythonanywhere2:10
Just like we have created a virtual environment locally, let's keep the good practice in pythonanywhere!
Configuring the web server9:57
Let's create a webapp and configure it!
Something went wrong :O2:05
Fixing an error in pythonanywhere

Requirements

It's useful to know about methods, iterating loops and objects. The course is structured in a way that you can follow along even if you are not comfortable with those concepts yet.

Description

Django is a powerful full-stack web framework that uses Python to build robust and scalable applications. In this course, we’ll learn to create a complete website with Django, guiding you through the entire process from start to finish. The course is structured in different sections, giving you a solid understanding of each stage of development.

Have you ever wanted to create a website using Django?
In this course we will go through the entire process!

The course is organized in different parts:

Setting Up
First steps in development
Django Admin Interface
Creating a database in Django
Deepening development
HTML & CSS adjustments
Deployment & Publishing

With a solid foundation, we’ll move on to deepening development, where you’ll learn concepts that make your website more dynamic and functional. Then, we’ll make HTML and CSS adjustments to improve the style of the site. Finally, we’ll see how to deploy and publish the website online, making it accessible to everyone.

Documentation
During the course I will provide you documentation in a step by step format that you can use in the future as a guide to create other Django projects.

Requirements
We will be using Python, HTML and some CSS. It's alright if you don't feel comfortable with those languages, we will be coding along during the videos!

Let's see how it goes and let's get started :)

Who this course is for:

Entrepreneurs
Web Developers curious about Django
Django beginners

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Course content

Setting up9 lectures • 26min

Development dynamics5 lectures • 21min

Static files & Debugging4 lectures • 10min

Django Admin interface4 lectures • 5min

Django Models5 lectures • 16min

Continuing with development8 lectures • 31min

Styling the portfolio3 lectures • 27min

Deployment7 lectures • 25min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

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