home page app¶

quick and dirty home page routing
start app

python manage.py startapp home

add to your starting point urls.py

from django.contrib import admin
from django.urls import path, include
from home import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
    path('', views.homepage),
]

home/views.py

from django.shortcuts import render
from datetime import datetime

def homepage(request):
    this_date = datetime.now()
    this_date = this_date.strftime('year %Y week %U day %j')
    html = """
        """
    return render(request, 'home.html', {'html':html,'today':this_date})

templates/home.html

{% extends "base.html" %} {% block title %} Menu {% endblock %} {% block content %} 
<div class="container">
    <div class="row m-5 p-3">
        <div class="col">
            <h3>microapps</h3>
            <a href="boop"
                role="button" 
                class="btn btn-light m-3" mr-1>boop</a>
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="row m-5 p-3">
        <div class="col">
        <a href="./blog/"
            role="button" class="btn btn-light mr-1 m-3">blog folder</a>
        <hr /> {{today|safe}}
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
{% endblock %}

404.html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Page Not Found</title>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <hr>
    <h1>404</h1><br><a href="{{ request.get_host }}/">bird up!</a>
    <hr>
  </body>
</html>

403.html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Page Not Found</title>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <hr>
    <h1>403</h1><br><a href="{{ request.get_host }}/">bird up!</a>
    <hr>
  </body>
</html>

500.html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Page Not Found</title>
  </head>
  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <hr>
    <h1>500</h1><br><a href="{{ request.get_host }}/">bird up!</a>
    <hr>
  </body>
</html>

base.html

{% load static %}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta
      charset="utf-8"
      name="viewport"
      content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" />
    <title>{% block title %}{% endblock %}</title> 
    {% include "head.html" %} 
    {% block extrahead %}
    {% endblock %}
  </head>
  <body> {% include "nav.html" %} <div class="container text-center"> {% block content %}{% endblock %} </div>
    <!-- {% include "menu.html" %} -->
    <!-- #include file="footer.html" -->
    <script
      src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/bootstrap@5.2.1/dist/js/bootstrap.bundle.min.js"
      integrity=""
      crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script
      src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js"
      integrity=""
      crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
  </body>
</html>

Last update: October 14, 2023
Created: October 14, 2023