DIMMiN Notes
My working notes related to the development of dimmin.com.
2023-11-25
- Fixed the formatting / styling issues on my blog posts
- I think I need to nuke my app
2023-11-24
- Updated the Staging environment with proper environment variables
- Updated version of the Staging environment deploys Taskmaster App appropriately
- Found out that the heroku git repo was up to date
- Still not sure why it's not serving the correct CSS files...?
2023-11-21
- Fixed 500 error! Blog App and About App are now accessible on the DIMMiN App
- Learned about Django's logging settings and created an environment variable that could adjust how verbose their outputs are
- Rolled back code, will have to restart implementation of timezone functionality for the Taskmaster App
2023-11-20
- Downloaded a local version of my database
- Learned how to back up my database
- Learned that django admin view is incorrectly formatting HTML to initiate ckeditor
- Downloaded and configured local access to my production DB to establish a live connection using pgadmin
2023-11-19
- Cleaned up my screwed up static file management system and learned the true meaning of christmas: that all apps can have their own custom static files.
- Now I can actually alter and adjust the CSS / JavaScript for each individual app
2023-11-18
- Pushed the Taskmaster App to production
- Added a Django Historical Table that allows me to track the updates and changes to the Task models.
2023-11-17
- Created the
task_loghtml template, developed the Django Views and Django Routes necessary to access the app.
2023-11-16
- Fixed up / removed unnecessary code used to run the About page
- Created the task_log app
- Made the task_log app accessible via the web app
2023-07-27
- Learned about the different paths required for static files (but still not exactly sure why)
- Maybe the
collectstaticcommand reduces file sizes or improves efficiency of the originalSTATICFILES_DIRSin production or something
- Maybe the
- Found out that the style.css page is in fact being referenced
- Found out that the
backgroundparameter in thebodytag in style.css is what changes the overall background of the site- This is where the nodes for Floaty Notes will need to float around
- Found out that I can no longer alter this parameter after the Navigation section of style.css.
2023-07-25
- Finished the post and uploaded it here
- Found out that some of my links didn't have a blank target, so the links wouldn't open a new tab they would redirect the user to a new page
- Added target blanks to open new tabs
- Deleted
staticfilesfolder and used the one truestaticfolder for css/js utilities.