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Django website templates - Speed up your Development

One common mistake a lot of us make is starting everything from scratch and spending weeks to complete simplest of websites. Most of the clients, don't care if you are using a template or starting from scratch, many also don't even care what technology you use, they just want a website up and running fast.

Starting a Django website from scratch is tedious and time-consuming. This way not only are you losing your time, but it also costs you potential new clients.

To make things easier for Django developers, I have created a reusable open-source Django website template.

You can check out the Demo website

Features of the Django templates include

  • Responsive Designs: Forget about starting tempting from scratch, get started with responsive designs.
  • Landing page: Comes with landing page that can be modified to your needs.
  • Contact us page: Contact us model and page for customers to contact and send enquiries.
  • Blogs with WYSIWYG editor: Provide an easy to use interface for your clients to write blogs. Comes with Trix editor integrated into the admin panel.
  • 404 Page: comes with a 404 page template.
  • SEO optimization: Uses SEO friendly URLs, titles, description, open-graph tags, heading tags and more.
  • Dynamic Sitemap.xml: Sitemap integration with dynamic sitemap generation for Blogs.
  • Robots.txt: pre-configured Robots file
  • Google analytics: Easily add Google analytics measurement ID
  • Custom user model: Comes with custom user model, that can be customized
  • Tailwind css: Comes with Tailwind css setup for rapid development.

How to use Django website template?

  • First start by cloning the repository
  • Install Python3.8 or higher
  • Install the requirements using pip install -r requirements.txt
  • Migrate using python manage.py migrate
  • Run server Using python manage.py runserver
  • Now go to http://localhost:8000, to see the live site.

Can beginners use this Django Template?

Even beginners can easily get started with this template. All you need are a few basic commands to run the server and a bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to customize it for your clients. It’s simple and user-friendly, making it perfect for those just starting out.

Link to repository: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-website-template

If you have question or need help, just drop a comment. If you found it useful, make sure to share.

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Devluc • Edited

Great work. Noted down to add this to HTMLrev in a week or so if you don't mind. That's about when I'll get to update the Django category there

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Paul

Sure feel free to add it.