Create a blog with Django

I created this blog site with Django.

I will summarize the information of created site in this article.

Development purpose

• Studying web development
• I wanted a blog site

Development environment

• Django 2.2
• Python 3.7
• Linode Server (Ubuntu 19)
• Nginx Web Server
• uWSGI
• GitHub
• Godaddy (Domain)

Use latest version when I developed.

Implementation function

• Administration page（Django default）
• Browsing page
• List by category and tag
• Search function
• Japanese and English switching function
• Google Analytics
• Article creation with Markdownx

Functions I want to add

• Related article list
• Popular article list
• Google Adsense

Study procedure

1.Django Girls Tutorial

A tutorial creating a miniblog. I didn't understand all at first, but first I moved my hand. Making blogs is easy to imagine and good for beginners.

2.Django Official tutorial

A tutorial creating a Voting site. More technical terms than Django Girls Tutorial. Again, I couldn't understand everything at once. But understanding gradually deepened. Just move your hand for now.

3.Create a blog site with Django

You can implement all necessary functions for your blog. I didn't use a convenient class-based view for studying, changed to function-based view.

4.Production environment implementation

Studying Git. Create GitHub account and Push・Pull to server. Make server environment.（Python, Django, Nginx, uWSGI）. Set domain.

Reference sites

Implementation of blog function

• Create a blog site with Django

Production environment implementation

• Deploying Django website to VPS with uWSGI, Nginx and Ubuntu 18.04

Basic skill

• Udemy Course

  • [HTML/CSS/JavaScript] Web programming introduction for those who want to be front-end engineers（Taniguchi Makoto）

  • Introduction to Python 3 taught by active Silicon Valley engineers + application + American Silicon Valley style code style（Sakai Jun）

• I didn't do but I should've taken before making blog

  • 【Python 3 x Django 2.0】Django to learn while making（Dai Takahashi）

  • For beginners of programming, Python / Django introduction course（Takizawa Narito）

  • Introduction to Git: Git for non-programmers（Taniguchi Makoto）

• Recommended sites

  • narito Blog

  • DjangoBrothers

Udemy has big sale (88% OFF, etc.) about once or twice a month, so you will get a better deal at that time.

Those website help me a lot. Thank you very much！