How to Build a Website with Python (Django 101)

Learn how to use templates in Django and render HTML pages to minimize duplicated markup.

Learn how to save and read database data with Django models. You don’t need have any experience with SQL or databases because Django does the complicated things for you. With the built-in Django shell (accessible with “python manage.py shell”, we will retrieve all model objects and filter them in various ways exclusively with Python syntax.

Learn how to set up the Django admin site with a super user where you can login to interact with your models via admin.py.

Learn how to make dynamic pages in Django by rendering templates with context that you can populate with model data. This tutorial will display the Django model in a table that’s accessible to the public.

Learn how to use Django forms to let Django do all the heavy lifting and automatically write HTML form elements for you. By extending the ModelForm and rendering it in your template from context, we can display the entire form or element by element.

Learn basic CRUD operations for Django so you can create, read, update, and delete data directly from a public web page. This tutorial will guide you through a simple CRUD example that uses a Django model to interact with the database.

Learn how to spice up your Django website with the Bootstrap CSS framework. In this tutorial, we will be using Bootstrap 5 to wrap our HTML body in a container, stylize our table with a border, and make colorful buttons with btn success, danger, and primary.