Zanex – Django Admin & Dashboard Template

This steps are based on Windows OS

Step1: Please visite the Official Web Site of the Python python.org

Step2: Click on the Download Python button

Step3: Now your Python setup file has downloaded

Step4: Now Right click on the Python setup file and select Run as administrator click on Yes

Step5: Please check on the Check Box Add Python to PATH. And select Customize installation option

Step6: Click on Install for all users. And click on the Install button to install python on your system

Step7: To check whether Python is installed or not type python --version in your terminal or console

Step8: The pip package is automatically installed with your python installation

Step9: To check whether pip package is installed or not type pip --version in your terminal or console

Note: Please follow the official web site python.org to install on Linux/UNIX OS.

1. First open command prompt in my case Example:C:\Users\ADMIN01> and type pip install django to install Django globally.
2. To check whether Django is installed or not type python -m django --version in your terminal or console
3. Now open a new command prompt and navigate to the folder where you want to create the Django project.
4. In my case Example:C:\Users\ADMIN01\Desktop\django>.
5. Now type the following command line django-admin startproject projectname and hit enter to create Django project. Here projectname is nothing but your django project folder name that you want to keep as your project name
6. Now you are sucessfully created Django project.
7. To create App or Application navigate to your django project folder Example:C:\Users\ADMIN01\Desktop\django\projectname\myproject> in your command prompt and type python manage.py startapp appname
8. Now you are sucessfully created App in your django project.
9. We have an improtant dependency or modual called django-htmlmin it is used to minify the html content to download this modul please type below command in your terminal.

Note: If you have any further queries in installation please refer to the official websites Click here

python manage.py runserver

1. Assuming that you have already installed python on your computer.
2. First, install Virtualenv on your computer globally or locally by setting your project path in the terminal.
3. To install Virtualenv type python -m venv env
4. Now you need to activate your Virtualenv by typing env\scripts\activate
5. The project that you received will have a file called the requirements.txt file. Now set your root path till that file in your terminal and type pip install -r requirements.txt
6. The above command will download all the required packages by using the requirements.txt file.
7. Once the download is completed set the project root path in the terminal and type python manage.py runserver to start the project.

										
											├── ltr/
											|   ├── __pycache__
											|   ├── migrations
											|   ├── templates/
											|   |   ├── components
											|   |   |   ├── layouts	
											|   |   |   ├── versions	
											|   |   |   ├── base.html	
											|   |   |   └── custom-base.html
											|   |   └── ltr
											|   |       └── .html files (100+)
											|   ├── __init__.py
											|   ├── admin.py
											|   ├── apps.py
											|   ├── models.py
											|   ├── tests.py
											|   ├── urls.py
											|   └── views.py									
											├── rtl/
											|   ├── __pycache__
											|   ├── migrations
											|   ├── templates/
											|   |   ├── components-rtl
											|   |   |   ├── layouts	
											|   |   |   ├── versions	
											|   |   |   ├── base.html	
											|   |   |   └── custom-base.html
											|   |   └── rtl
											|   |       └── .html files (100+)
											|   ├── __init__.py
											|   ├── admin.py
											|   ├── apps.py
											|   ├── models.py
											|   ├── tests.py
											|   ├── urls.py
											|   └── views.py																							
											├── static/
											|   └── assets
										
									

Steps to convert Verticalmenu to Horizontalmenu

1. First, unzip the project folder that you received from us.
2. Navigate as shown Example: F:\project folder\ltr\templates\components
3. Open components there you will find base.html and custom-base.html files
4. Here base.html file is the main base file to activate all versions step by step
5. And custom-base.html file is the main base file to activate all custom pages
6. By default vertical menu is activated as shown in the below image {% extends 'components/versions/vertical/light.html' %}
7. 
8. If you want to activate another version for example horizontal menu open base.html file in your editor and you need to uncomment the code and give the top priority i.e place the code at the top row as shown in the below image.
9. 
10. Change this code {% extends 'components/versions/vertical/light.html' %} to this {% extends 'components/versions/horizontal/light.html' %}
11. Repate the same process for custom pages as shown in the below image
12. 
13. When you are converting light version to dark version it is necessary to do the same for custom pages, otherwise custom pages will not convert to dark-mode
14. Now set your project path in command prompt or terminal and type python manage.py runserver
15. Now you have sucessfully activated to Horizontalmenu
16. Please refer FAQ'S to activate other versions and styles like Boxed-Layout, Sidemenu-Icon-with Text & Sidemenu-Icon.
17. Simillarly repeat the above process for rtl

Note : The activated version code should be at the top priority, that is at the top row as shown in the above images.

1. You can convert your project from LTR to RTL in just on step by changing url.
2. Navigate to main django folder there you will find urls.py file by default LTR url is given.
3. If you want to change to RTL open that urls.py file in your editor and change the url as shown in the below image.

• Gulp

  Gulp is a JavaScipt streaming task runner. It automate many development tasks. Using gulp you can perform tasks like running a local server, minifying code, compilation, Browser sync ,optimizing images, etc... We are using gulp which allows easy compilation of scss to csss. You can read it more about it here.

Prerequisites

Please follow below steps to install and setup all prerequisites:

• Nodejs

  Make sure to have the Node.js installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed nodejs on your computer, you can skip this step, otherwise install nodejs on your computer,

  Usenpm install init -y command to generate packages.json file

• Gulp

  Make sure to have the Gulp installed & running in your computer. If you already have installed gulp on your computer, you can skip this step. In order to install, just run command npm install -g gulp from your terminal.

• After Completion of gulp Install. open gulpfile.js And install the "Declartion of gulp variables" in your command promt. In order to install, just run command
  npm install gulp,
  npm install gulp-sass,
  npm install gulp-postcss,
  npm install autoprefixer,
  npm install gulp-sourcemaps,
  npm install browser-sync,
  npm install gulp-cssbeautify,
  npm install gulp-beautify from your terminal.

  Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running in your computer. If you want install more variables for your template, just declare the variables in gulpfile.js after that run in command promt

Installation

To setup, follow below mentioned steps:

• Install Prerequisites

  Make sure to have all above prerequisites installed & running in your computer

• Install Dependencies

  Open your terminal, go to your folder and enter the command npm install. This would install all required dependencies in node_modules folder.

After you finished with above steps, you can run the command to compile scss into css: gulp