This tutorial will introduce the main concepts and features within Django and show you how to put them together to create a simple web base application.
The guide is primarily for newbies to Django who want to get a feel for the framework. The tutorial is essentially a walk-through of building an application in Django. The tutorial seeks to complement the official Django Tutorials. It also tries to fill in some of the gaps within the official Django Tutorial and Django Documentation when trying to use particular pieces of functionality.
The tutorial will cover: * How to setup you Django project work with static files and other media in your project (in a development environment) * How to use the Model - View - Template pattern within the Django Framework * How to get started with the Models and Forms * How to get started with the User Authentication Services * How to incorporate external services into a web application * How to use template inheritance * How to incorporate CSS and Javascript within a web application * How to use cookies
To this end, this tutorial will show you how to build a pretty simple application called, Rango:
- Rango is a directory of web pages, where the web pages are assigned to categories.
- A user will be able to select a category, and Rango will display the list of web pages in that category.
- Rango will also provide web search capabilities by using Bing’s Search API.
- Rango will let registered users add to the directory of pages.