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Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours
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Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours

by Brad Dayley
February 2008
Beginner
528 pages
9h 53m
English
Sams
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Chapter 2. Creating Your First Website

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

  • How to begin creating a Django project
  • How to start and stop the built-in web server
  • The steps to configure Django to access the database
  • How to create and install an application
  • The steps to apply a model to an application
  • The steps to activate a model in Django
  • How to configure Django to accept specific URL requests
  • How to create a simple view for a web browser

In Hour 1, “Understanding Django,” you learned some of the basics about the Django framework. This hour guides you through the steps of creating a functional website called iFriends. Although this website will be basic, it will be the basis for future hours to build on as you are guided through the various aspects of ...

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