Django on Ahmad Muhammad

Adding a contact form to a Django site

Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

So, you’ve got a site set up with Django and you’ve got everything running. One small problem: There’s no way for users to contact you. Having this functionality is essential because sometimes users may have some questions about your site and/or any services you’re offering.

Django doesn’t come with built-in contact forms, however creating your own contact form is relatively easy. Let’s see how.

I’m not going to go too in-depth into creating a new Django project, since this article assumes you’ve already got a site up and running. However, I will quickly run through the steps again for the beginners.

Revisiting Django and Flask

Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

A little over two and a half years ago, I decided to dabble in the world of Python web-apps by following the book “Django By Example”. Having done Python courses before, I knew my basic way around the language but I had never put together a proper application in any way, shape or form.

Starting Django from the book was a leap for me. I had heard of Django before, I knew it was a framework that let you make web-apps, but I had no idea how any of it worked. My lack of experience with proper Python apps didn’t help my position either. For a large chunk of the project, I was just following the book and not quite understanding what was happening.