# Creating Your First Django App!

Learn how to use the Django web framework and the associated code tactics to build your own simple poll web application.

#### WATCH TIME

108 minutes

## Lessons

#### Adding Features to our Polling View

Add more features to the questions in your detail view.

**Duration:** 12 min

#### Creating Detailed Django Views

For the next steps of webpage display, You will begin to create new, different views (detailed, results etc).

**Duration:** 11 min

#### Creating Views and Routes in Django

You will learn how to create a URL and show some content and data on your working Django webpage.

**Duration:** 7 min

#### Initializing and Creating our Django Models

Beginning with the auto-generated Django code for a new project, you will begin to create a database for your application.

**Duration:** 9 min

#### Using Jinja2 with Django Templates

Begin to add some functionality to your webpage using the Jinja2 which connects your Python code to HTML commands.

**Duration:** 14 min

#### Adding Bootstrap to Django + Final Touches

Learn how to use the Bootstrap framework on your web app which will allow you to create responsible, mobile projects.

**Duration:** 12 min

#### Populating our Django Database

In this video, you will populate your polling database using the Django shell and Django admin page.

**Duration:** 10 min

#### Styling Django Pages with CSS

Learn about CSS and how to incorporate it to your Django application.

**Duration:** 13 min

#### Getting Started with Django

In this video, you will learn how to get the requirements and create a basic Django project on your way to building a simple poll application.

**Duration:** 8 min

#### Adding a Voting Option for Results

Continue adding functionality to your Django app by adding a voting option and a way to view results on the webpage.

**Duration:** 16 min

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