azmabdu / news-website-django

This is a news website repo. While Python(Django) has been used to implement the website's server-side backend, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS/HTML used for frontend.

This is a news website repo. While Python(Django) has been used to implement the website's server-side backend, JavaScript, Bootstrap, CSS/HTML used for frontend.

Main features:

• Publishing news through admin dashboard
• Commenting and subcommenting the publications
• Searching news
• Categorized news
• Getting up-to-date currency rates (CBU API)
• Getting up-to-date weather forecast (Openweather API)
• Sending welcome emails

Instructions to run the website:

1. After clonning the repo, make sure Django and Python are installed (if not 'pip install python' and 'pip install django')
2. Open terminal and get to the root directory (../website/)
3. Type 'python manage.py runserver' to the shell
4. Open the provided link