Building a Personal Portfolio with Django

Learn the basics of Django for web development by building your own website—a personal portfolio—from the ground up.

Introduction

• Creating a website with Python
• What you should know

1. Portfolio Project Overview

• Demo project overview

2. Creating Django Apps

• Starting a new project in Django
• Creating a Django app in a project
• Setting up URLs in your Django project

3. Django and Databases

• Creating the models in Django
• Postgres setup for Django
• Connecting your Django project to Postgres
• Make Django migrations and migrate
• Setting up an admin panel in Django
• Creating model objects via the admin panel in Django
• Pulling objects from the database in Django

4. Designing Your Django Project

• Bootstrap overview and installation
• Page layout and templates in Django
• Adding static images to your Django project
• Collectstatic in Django
• Bootstrap as a static asset in Django
• Finishing touches in Django design

5. Object Details in Django

• Connecting URLs and templates in Django
• Creating views in Django
• Designing object detail views
• URL paths with parameters

Conclusion

• Next steps for Django