Implementation of AltBlog.

AltBlog was built using:

Python was used as the Backend language of the project. The libraries imported and used from python are:

1. OS

This was used to interact with the operating system, creating a base directory for our project to store our database.

2. werkzeug.security

3. datetime

This library was imported to generate the date a post was created on AltBlog.

Flask is a Python framework that is used for developing web applications and it was used for creating endpoints and as the general backend web framework for the project. Libraries used from flask are:

Jinja is a fast, expressive, extensible templating engine. Special placeholders in the template allow writing code similar to Python syntax. It made it possible to write Python code in our template/html files.

HTML and CSS are the web technologies used in creating thr Frontend of our project.

Bootstrap is a free frontend project that was used in Navigation design and general responsiveness to an extent.

This is an icon library that used used in theproject to create the ‘B’ in AltBlog logo, search icon and edit icon.

Code Editor used for the project.

Git Bah was used for to communicate with the Command Line.

The results of the project will be discussed via its features.

Features available to both authenticated(users with an AltBlog account) and un-authenticated(users without an AltBlog account) users.

. Read all posts/articles.

. Search for a post/article by author name.

. Leave feedback for development team via Contact Us and view About.

. Users without an account can register also.

Features limited to authenticated users are:

. Create, edit and delete posts created by self(current authenticated user).

. View all posts created by the user(current authenticated user), which can by accessed by clicking on MY POSTS or the user’s username after welcome on the homepage.

. Login and logout.

After the first upload of AltBlog, a few features were implemented, fixed some bugs and a new feature was added:

. The AltBlog database was implemented to initialize db tables on first run instead of always going to the terminal every time to initiate db tables.

. The AltBlog footer was fixed to remain at the button of the page.

A new feature was added for authenticated users:

. Save Posts; this allows authenticated users to save posts to read later, view all saved posts and also remove a post from saved posts list. A user can view their saved posts by going to the MY POSTS page.

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