Letters to My 25-Year-Old Self Website

This is a Django powered website for the Letters project. A collection of letters filled with the dreams, fears, and revelations of incredible people around the world. A project that asks the question

"If you could tell your 25-year-old self anything at all, what would you say?"

DEPRECATION NOTE:

The project is no longer active, so the live website has been replaced with a static copy of this Django powered website.

Setting up the site locally

Start by cloning the git project

$ git clone git@github.com:zanderle/letters25.git

Before installing the requirements, make sure you have Python libq header files installed (we will need it for Pillow and psycopg2) and install bower.

$ apt-get install python-dev libpq-dev
$ npm install -g bower

After that install the requirements (preferably in virtual enviornment) and the frontend packages.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ bower install

Create local_settings.py in the same directory as settings.py. Use local_settings.py.example to do it. You will need to compile the less files that PIPELINE_CSS expects. The easiest way to do this depends on what tools you use. If you are going to edit the stylesheets, you should have it set to recompile automatically.

Now, you only need to create and migrate the database (you should use PostgreSQL, but you could probably get away with SQLite), and you're ready to get started

$ ./manage.py migrate
$ ./manage.py runserver