i made this to explore backend development! i've mainly focused on the visuals of sites, so it was nice to make something non-static

i made it about the recipes me and my grandma have baked, since well....i love baked goods!

within the site, you can click on the various cards in order to view different recipes. there are various hover and transition effects to make the site more fun!

in the backend, i (the admin) can write in posts, the related image, and a date for it to easily appear on the main page -- much easier than writing everything out in html

i used bootstrap, CSS, and HTML for the frontend development and django/python for backend

the cookie pixel art was created on pixquare

i spent ~8 hours coding it :') as well as around 2hr setting up pythonanywhere, making the icon, and adding recipes in

i've never really done any backend before, and django was overall very confusing!! (i'm proud i made a non-static site, though!)

having to migrate and push more frequently just to test how it would look in pythonanywhere definitely was not my favorite...i think i prefer just brute force css and html, though i understand the appeal of bootstrap & django's template structureture

i even had to import ckeditor after a long struggle in order to add line breaks and better formatting to my posts

now i think i have a better grasp on how django and more complicated backend systems work, as well as how to upload them through methods like pythonanywhere (yippee!)