Django website templates - Speed up your Development
Tags: webdev, django, beginners, opensource
Published: 2024-06-24 06:32:08

One common mistake a lot of us make is starting everything from scratch and spending weeks to complete simplest of websites. Most of the clients, don't care if you are using a template or starting from scratch, many also don't even care what technology you use, they just want a website up and running fast.

Starting a Django website from scratch is tedious and time-consuming. This way not only are you losing your time, but it also costs you potential new clients.

To make things easier for Django developers, I have created a reusable open-source  [Django website template](https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-website-template).

You can check out the [Demo website](https://django-website-template.vercel.app) 

## Features of the Django templates include

- **Production Ready**: Ready for deployment, comes with configuration for production. Start deploying to [Railway.app](https://railway.app/?referralCode=BfMDHP), [Vercel.com](https://vercel.com), [render.com](https://render.com) etc.

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- **Responsive Designs**: Forget about starting tempting from scratch, get started with responsive designs.

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- **Landing page**: Comes with landing page that can be modified to your needs.

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- **Contact us page**: Contact us model and page for customers to contact and send enquiries.

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-  **Blogs with [WYSIWYG editor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG)**: Provide an easy to use interface for your clients to write blogs. Comes with Trix editor integrated into the admin panel.

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- **404 Page**: comes with a [404 page](https://django-website-template.vercel.app/404-page/) template.

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- **[SEO optimization](https://templates.foxcraft.tech/blog/b/how-to-optimize-your-website-for-seo)**: Uses SEO friendly URLs, titles, description, open-graph tags, heading tags and more.

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- **Dynamic Sitemap.xml**: Sitemap integration with dynamic sitemap generation for Blogs.

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- **Robots.txt**: pre-configured Robots file

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- **Google analytics**: Easily add Google analytics measurement ID

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- **Custom user model**: Comes with custom user model, that can be customized

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- **[Tailwind css](https://tailwindcss.com/docs/utility-first)**: Comes with Tailwind css setup for rapid development.
 

## How to use Django website template?
- First start by cloning the [repository](https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-website-template?tab=readme-ov-file#local-development)
- Install Python3.8 or higher
- Install the requirements using `pip install -r requirements.txt`
- Migrate using `python manage.py migrate`
- Run server Using `python manage.py runserver`
- Now go to http://localhost:8000, to see the live site.


## Can beginners use this Django Template?
Even beginners can easily get started with this template. All you need are a few basic commands to run the server and a bit of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to customize it for your clients. It’s simple and user-friendly, making it perfect for those just starting out.


Link to repository: [https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-website-template](https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-website-template)


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