We are going to start with a simple blogging platform in Django. In recent years, Django has emerged as one of the clear leaders in web frameworks. When most people decide to start using a web framework, their searches lead them to either Ruby on Rails (RoR) or Django. Both are mature, stable, and extensively used. It appears that the decision to use one or the other depends mostly on which programming language you're familiar with. Rubyists go with RoR, Pythonistas go with Django. In terms of features, both can be used to achieve the same results, although they have different approaches to how things are done.
One of the most popular blogging platforms these days is Medium, widely used by a number of high profile bloggers. Its popularity stems from its elegant theme, and simple-to-use interface. I'll walk you through creating a similar application in Django, with a few surprise features that most blogging platforms don't have. This will give you a taste of things to come, and show you just how versatile Django can be.
Before starting any software development project, it's a good idea to have a rough roadmap of what we would like to achieve. Here's a list of features that our blogging platform will have:
User should be able to register an account and create their blogs
Users should be able to tweak the settings of their blogs
There should be simple interface for users to create and edit blog posts
Users should be able to share their blog posts on other blogs on the platform
I know this seems like a lot of work, but Django comes with a couple of contrib packages that speed up our work considerably.