README.md

ZG Music

A Music Entertainment app

➡️ Description

This is a music/entertainment app built with html, css and python using the web development framework Django.
The project is deployed on pythonanywhere - ZeroGravity
It is an improvement to a previous web app developed by me - Musicblog-flask.

➡️ Features

• Better UI experience and responsiveness
• View music charts, tables, playlists, artists and videos
• View and search blog posts and comment if you like
• Register user for an account
• Log in into account
• Update account profile information
• Upload ads on website
• Upload songs for verification
• Log out from account
• About and Contact us page
• Newsletter subscription
  
  

➡️ Languages | Technologies

Programming Languages	Python
Backend	Django
Frontend	HTML, CSS, Javascript, Bootstrap
Database	Sqlite3

➡️ Installation

• Clone or download this repository
• Ensure python is installed on your system
• Create virtual environment in parent directory, run python -m venv venv
• Activate environment, for bash run source venv/Scripts/activate
• Install project packages, run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Create a .env file and set values for SECRET_KEY, MAIL_USERNAME AND MAIL_PASSWORD
• Migrate database models, run python manage.py makemigrations, then python manage.py migrate
• Finally start the app, run python manage.py runserver

➡️ Contribution/Improvement

• To improve on this, reset and change password features should be included