Learning Log is fully functional now, but it has no styling and runs only on your local machine. In this chapter we’ll style the project in a simple but professional manner and then deploy it to a live server so anyone in the world can make an account.
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20-1. Other Forms: We’ve applied
Bootstrap’s styles to the login and add_topic pages. Make similar
changes to the rest of the form-based pages: new_entry and
edit_entry, and register.
20-2. Stylish Blog: Use Bootstrap to style the Blog project you created in Chapter 19.
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20-3. Live Blog: Deploy the Blog project
you’ve been working on to Heroku. Make sure you set DEBUG to False
and change the ALLOWED_HOSTS setting, so your deployment is reasonably
secure.
20-4. More 404s: The
get_object_or_404() function should also be used in the new_entry()
and edit_entry() views. Make this change, test it by entering a URL
like http://localhost:8000/new_entry/99999/, and check that you see a
404 error.
20-5. Extended Learning Log: Add one
feature to Learning Log, and push the change to your live deployment.
Try a simple change, such as writing more about the project on the home
page. Then try adding a more advanced feature, such as giving users the
option of making a topic public. This would require an attribute called
public as part of the Topic model (this should be set to False by
default) and a form element on the new_topic page that allows the user
to change a topic from private to public. You’d then need to migrate the
project and revise views.py so any topic that’s public is visible to
unauthenticated users as well. Remember to migrate the live database
after you’ve pushed your changes to Heroku.