In this tutorial I will show you how to host a Django application on www.pythonAnywhere.com for $5 per month. In previous posts I explained how I hosted Django applications on a2hosting.com. I now moved away from a2hosting since I was not satisfied with the service and performance any more. I think I now found the …
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In this post I collected a list of useful Snippets for Bootstrap 4 which I use regularly. Among these are detecting the current view port and screen size (xs, sm, md, lg or xl) and showing or hiding elements depending on the current viewport and screen size.
When starting a new Django project, Django automatically creates some files and folders for you. However, not all the files and folder which you will need for you application are created at the beginning. This tutorial gives you an overview of the most important files and folders which you need to create manually. Let’s start. …
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When I setup a new Django project I was looking for an easy way to schedule periodic tasks like crawling an API, removing old entries from a database, or sending an Email. Unfortunately I was not able to find a quick, easy, and straightforward solution. I had a look at cronjobs, Celery, and many more. They …
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In this quick tutorial you learn how you can detect if a user has installed an ad blocker like AdBlock, AdBlock Plus, UBlock Origin, AdGuard, Ghostery, or any other using JavaScript and jQuery.
Sometime you might have the need to change the URL of your website without reloading the entire page. This might be the case if you dynamically load content via AJAX according to user input and want to preserve the current website state in the URL. It is possible in modern browsers to update the URL …
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Create social sharing buttons using Font Awesome and pure CSS. You can use it on Bootstrap or any other HTML page.
This is a quick tutorial on how to create a new Django project on a Apple Mac using Python 3 as a programming language. Prerequisites for this tutorial are: you have a Mac, you have Python 3 installed, you have virtualenv installed and you have pip installed. You have all this? Then you are ready …
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This tutorial will show you how to configure your Django website in order to serve static files on A2 Hosting in a productive environment.
In this tutorial you will learn how to deploy a basic Django website to a shared hosting environment on A2Hosting.com