Portfolio

Installation

• Fork the repository and clone it into your PC
• Open CMD and navigate into the cloned project folder
• If you do not have Python, install it from https://www.python.org/downloads/. Make sure to install pip and add Python to path of system environment variables as well
• Create a virtual environment by python3 -m venv <name_of_virtualenv>
• Activate the created virtual environment by <name_of_virtualenv>\Scripts\activate
• We need to install Django and Django-environ in order to run our project successfully. For that, run pip install django and pip install django-environ
• In the same directory as settings.py, create a file called ‘.env’. Generate a Django secret key from https://djecrety.ir/, copy that and add it to your .env file as SECRET_KEY=. Make sure you don’t use quotations around strings.
• Before running the project, we need to run python manage.py makemigrations and python manage.py migrate to make and apply migrations
• Now, run the project by python manage.py runserver
• You will see something like this on the CMD, this means you have successfully installed the Portfolio project:

March 12, 2021 - 14:59:22
Django version 3.0.3, using settings 'Portfolio.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CTRL-BREAK.

• Now press ctrl+c to stop the server
• Wonderful thing about Django is it provides admin panel, for that we need to create the superuser by running python manage.py createsuperuser
• Enter the username, email and password(you wont be able to see the typed password on the screen)
• Now again run the server by python manage.py runserver
• Navigate to 127.0.0.1:8000/admin
• You will see something like this:

• Enter the username and password and login where you will see something like this:

• Under Connects, you can add your social media usernames, links(urls) to your profiles, and content(a bit about yourself) you want to show on the connect page
• Under projects, you can add the name(title) of your project, content explaining what your project is all about, and GitHub link to the repo of your project
• Under Posts, you can add blog posts and publish it(or keep it draft)
• Navigate to your site and you will see the projects, blogs and social media profiles added to it
• However, on the left corner of the navbar, it shows “name”. You can change it by going to Portfolio/templates/base.html
• Inside the body and nav tag, find where “Name” is written. Change that to your name and you are good to go!
• For now, the home page is blank. You can add HTML block at Portfolio/templates/index.html

More features to be added

• Documentation on how to host your Portfolio for free(on Heroku)
• Changing models
• Presently, the color theme is green. Would like to add the option of changing the theme color according user preference
• Uploading image to be displayed on 'About Me'
• More to be added soon!

You can contact me any time on hmangukia9@gmail.com or LinkedIn if you are facing any error in installation or hosting. Would be more than happy to help for creating index.html as well!