Affyn's Blog Site

Welcome to Affyns's Blog Site, a fully-fledged online blog site designed with a sleek and user-friendly interface. This project combines a sophisticated front-end built with HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, and JavaScript, and a robust Python Django backend.

Key Features

• Responsive Design: Built using Bootstrap for a seamless experience across various devices and screen sizes.
• Interactive UI: Dynamic and engaging user interface with smooth transitions and intuitive controls.
• Secure Backend: Django backend ensures a secure and scalable architecture for handling site data.
• Account Management: Users can easily create accounts, and manage profiles.
• Standard Comment System: Users can easily make comments on posts, edit, delete and can also make and receive replies.
• Post Reaction: Users can easily react and remove reaction from posts.
• Search Feature: Posts can be easily searched with title, writer and category.
• Standard Sorting: Posts are easily sorted by categories.
• and many more...

Technologies Used

• Frontend: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript
• Backend: Python Django
• Database: SQLite (can be easily configured for other databases)

Getting Started

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/PeterOlayemi/blog_site.git

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Create environment variables (.env) file containing these variables (all vars are set to an empty string for testing purpose only):

SECRET_KEY = '{{your_django_project_secret_key}}'
my_email = '{{your_email_address}}'
appsPassword = '{{your_appspassword_for_email}}'

4: Migrate server:

python manage.py makemigrations
python manage.py migrate

5: Run the development server:

python manage.py runserver

6: Access the admin panel

At http://localhost:8000/admin then add your contact and team information to the database. This can also be done through python shell.

7: Access the application

At http://localhost:8000

Contributing

Feel free to contribute by submitting issues or pull requests.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Where to find Me

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