Django Boards

A discussion board (forum) where users can start a new discussion by creating a new topic or engage in a discussion by posting replies.

Table of Contents

• General Info
• Technologies Used
• Features
• Project Status
• Room for Improvement
• Acknowledgements
• Contact

General Information

• Django Boards is a discussion board (a forum).

• The whole idea is to maintain several boards, which will behave like categories.

• Then, inside a specific board, a user can start a new discussion by creating a new topic.

• In a given topic, other users can engage in the discussion by posting replies.

• I undertook this project as a means of learning the Django Web Framework.

• Feel free to check it out, create new boards, topics, and reply to existing posts. The project is available here.

Technologies Used

• Django
• HTML & CSS
• Bootstrap

Features

• Users can start a new discussion by creating a new topic.
• Other users can engage in the discussion by posting replies.
• Create, read, update and delete functionality for users in relation to posts.
• User registration and authentication (users have to be logged in to interact with posts).
• Profile update functionality.
• Change password functionality.

Project Status

Project is: complete.

Room for Improvement

Room for improvement:

• Improve the visual design.

To do:

• Add messages to inform users when a certain action is completed e.g editing a post - to improve the user experience.

Acknowledgements

• This project was based on this tutorial.
• Many thanks to Vitor Freitas for coming up with such a comprehensive beginner's guide and to my friend Byron, who shared it with me, enabling me to take the next steps in my Developer Journey when I was just starting out.

Contact

Created by Peter Kibuchi.