Creating a Dynamic Website Using Python

[Cai Gengyang]

Ok, I will look through the Flask tutorials then ...


On Monday, November 23, 2015 at 8:21:28 PM UTC+8, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 8:55 PM, Cai Gengyang <gengyangcai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > So I have gone through the CodeAcademy Python modules and decided to jump straight into a project.
> >
> > I want to create a dynamic web-based site like this --- https://www.wedpics.com using Python
> >
> > How / where do I start ?
> 
> While it's *possible* to create a web site using just a base Python
> install, it's a lot more work than you need. What you should instead
> do is pick up one of the popular web frameworks like Django, Flask,
> Bottle, etc, and use that. Pick a framework (personally, I use Flask,
> but you can use any of them), and work through its tutorial. Then,
> depending on how fancy you want your site to be, you'll need anywhere
> from basic to advanced knowledge of the web's client-side technologies
> - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and possibly some libraries like Bootstrap,
> jQuery, etc. Again, pick up any that you want to use, and work through
> their tutorials.
> 
> This is a massively open-ended goal. You can make this as big or small
> as you want.
> 
> ChrisA