In this project I tested my Full Stack Development skills to build a web application where users can request designers to make graphic designs for them.

The site is built for people who want to earn money through designing and for people who want to buy designs.

• When making the site I focused on making it very easy to use, yet very practical.
• The user knows what to do with reading/instructions because of the design.

1. User Story: A user can register and login.
2. User Story: A user can request a design.
3. User Story: A designer can look through all requests.
4. User Story: Once a designer has found one he/she can start designing.
5. User Story: Once the designer is done, he/she can send the design to the user.
6. User Story: The user and designer can see the final product.
7. User Story: When the user opens the quote which the designer sent back, the user can review the design.
8. User Story: Then the user can pay with credit card, the money will be sended to the site owner, and the site owner pays 80% to the designer.
9. User Story: The user can now use their design, and the designer can spend his/her money.

for users:

• Registering
• Creating requests
• Seeing all own requests
• Paying

for designer:

• Registering
• Seeing all requests which haven't been completed yet
• Sending quotes after requests

• [HTML5]

  • The project uses HTML5 to build the structure of the website

• [CSS3]

  • The project uses CSS3 to style the HTML5/structure of the website.

• Python

  • The project uses Python to create and import functions for running the whole site.

• Django

  • The project uses Django to link urls/pages, databases, models, views and more with eachother

• Javascript

  • The project uses Javascript to make the project interactive.

• JQuery

  • The project uses JQuery to simplify DOM manipulation.

• PostgreSQL

  • The project uses PostgreSQL for storing data.

• Google Fonts

  • The project uses Google Fonts to use fonts which aren't included in the browser.

• Bootstrap

  • The project uses Bootstrap to use icons and a more pleasant user experience.

The most testing was done through building the site. Tested a lot of unusual actions to try and "break" the site, and then fix it if needed. Tested it on a small laptop, a large monitor, multiple phones and ofcourse used the browser's function to show the project on various screen sizes. And also tested it on various browsers.

The changes made were commited through git and then later pushed to (https://github.com/SemSmit/designermarket).

But due to bugs the first repository I used was: (https://github.com/SemSmit/designmarket), the second (https://github.com/SemSmit/designersmarket) and the third and final one: (https://github.com/SemSmit/designermarket)

Heroku automatically retrieves these files from git when pushed and then builds the app on heroku. The ENV.py values like SECRET_KEY are stored in the config vars of Heroku, so it can run properly.

I deployed the site using Heroku. The site can be found on: (https://designmarket.herokuapp.com/)

###Local Deployment Install Python version 3 or higher. Create a virtual environment using "python3 -m venv path/to/virtual/env" to run, go to your local virtual environment in your terminal and type 'source venv/scripts/activate', then go to ......./designmarket then use "pip3 install -r requirements.txt" to install the python packages for this project. Then in ...../designmarket type "./manage.py runserver" to build&run the app.

The link where you can see your app is shown in your terminal.

Thanks to the StackOverflow and the tutors of CodeInstitute for helping me out a few times And to my mentor Ignatius Ukwuoma for giving me tips throughout the project

- The Cart and Checkout app were mostly copied from CodeInstitute's lessons.

- Due to lack of time, and my access to the course being ended in five minutes from now,
I unfortunately couldn't implement everything like I wanted. Building this project took me more time than expected, 
probably due to bugs.
And I just didn't have a lot of time.
I hope you give me points on what is there, not on what isn't.