Customizing Your Django Home Page

Let's see how we can add our own content by changing the default home page that we saw when we installed Django.

Step 1

Go to your project folder, activate Virtual Environment and Open Visual studio code in project folder

cd C:\my-django\project1\website1
C:\my-django\project1\venv1\scripts\activate.bat
code .      

Step 2

Open a new terminal by selecting the terminal menu in vs code

Step 3

Create an app named 'app1' in your project:-

To create the app, run the following command in terminal

python manage.py startapp app1

Step 4

Open views.py file under app folder (app1) and add a view (method) named 'index'

from django.shortcuts import render
from django.http import HttpResponse

def index(request):
    return HttpResponse("
Hello World
")

Step 5

Create a python file 'urls.py' in app folder(app1) and add the following code

from django. urls import path
from . import views	

urlpatterns=[
    path('',views.index,name='index')
]

Step 6

Open 'urls.py' under project folder(website1) and change the code as given below

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

urlpatterns = [
    path('',include("app1.urls")),
    path("admin/", admin.site.urls),
]

Step 7

Run the project again and See the change on your home page