Learn Tech, One Step at a Time
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Django Template Inheritance Explained: DTL Part 2 Django Template Inheritance Explained, Part 1 solved one problem and left another sitting there on purpose. Your homepage now pulls in {{ site_name }} and {{ tagline }} from a real template file instead of a Python string — but that template still has its own full <!DOCTYPE […]
Django Template Language (DTL) Explained: Part 1 for Beginners Django Template Language Explained, Every view built so far in this course has had the same problem buried inside it. The homepage, the About page, the blog post view — each one carries a full copy of the same navbar, the same <!DOCTYPE html>, the same […]
Django dynamic URL single post page So far, every page in this course has needed its own view and its own line in urls.py — homepage gets one, About gets one. That works fine for a handful of fixed pages, but it falls apart the moment you’re building something like a blog. You’re not going […]
Create a Django Home Page That Actually Looks Like a Website create a Django home page with navigation and base template By this point in the series, your Django project can respond to a browser request, but if you’ve been following along, your homepage is still just one line of plain text sitting on a […]
Django dynamic URLs and templates tutorial In Part 1, I got a plain “Hello, world” message showing up on my homepage, and honestly, that felt like a big enough win at the time. But real websites don’t just show static text — they show HTML pages, and they show different content depending on which specific […]
create your first Django view and URL I remember finally getting my first custom page to show up in the browser — not the default Django welcome page, but something I actually typed myself. It was just the words “Hello, world” on a blank white page, and I still felt genuinely proud of it. If […]
Django URLs and Views Explained There was a point in my Django journey where I could create a project, create an app, define a model, and register it in the admin — but if you’d asked me how a URL actually turns into a visible webpage, I would have just shrugged. I was following steps […]
Start Django Local Web Server: 5 Easy Steps (2026 Guide) Once you’ve built a Django project, the first question most beginners ask is how to start Django local web server on their own machine. In this article, NIMA Academy walks you through the process step-by-step — practical and hands-on, so you can see your project […]
Django project vs app explained For the first couple of weeks I spent learning Django, I genuinely thought “project” and “app” were just two words for the same thing. I’d create a project, then create something called an app, and in my head, they were basically interchangeable folders full of Python files. It wasn’t until […]
Django App Structure Explained: 7 Files You’ll Actually Use The first app I ever created in Django was called blog. I remember running python manage.py startapp blog, watching a new folder pop up, and thinking — okay, now what? I had just gone through the pain of understanding the project structure, and now here was […]
