Personal website built using the Django framework
This personal blog was built using Python and Django
This website was originally built in Flask, the code can be seen at my Flask-Personal-Blog-Website repository. However, that website was not very nice and I wanted something more scaleable. Django was the perfect option. I converted the Flask-Personal-Blog-Website to Django, significantly improved the front end for both mobile and non-mobile users, and drastically improved the performance of the website by changing a key few features outlined below.
The purpose of this website is to be a resource to those interested in my Israel experience. I simply don't have the time to talk to all of the people who are interested in how my year in Israel is going, I can simply send them a link to my website where I post an update a few times a month.
The backend was built using Python and the Django module The front end obviously used HTML and quite a bit of personalized CSS, but it also used quite a few Bootstrap elements. The database was developed using SQLite3, but I might switch that to MySQL once it is deployed.
Each post is now its own page so that the server doesn't have to send all of the posts for the home page as the old website had it do. The images are now displayed using bootstrap's carousel feature which improves the users' experience. From the admin's side (that is, my side) the new admin page is a game-changer. I can now easily add and update posts thanks to Djangos auto-generated admin page.
I am planning to add a like post button and perhaps even a comment section, although I'm not sure yet if I want users to have to create an account with my website. Django makes it incredibly easy to implement such a system, but it is a pain to have to set up an account with a website.