20STYLING AND DEPLOYING AN APP

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Learning Log is fully functional now, but it has no styling and runs only on your local machine. In this chapter we’ll style the project in a simple but professional manner and then deploy it to a live server so anyone in the world can make an account.

For the styling we’ll use the Bootstrap library, a collection of tools for styling web applications so they look professional on all modern devices, from a large flat-screen monitor to a smartphone. To do this, we’ll use the django-bootstrap3 app, which will also give you practice using apps made by other Django developers.

We’ll deploy Learning Log using Heroku, a ...

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