I’m pretty new to web development but I know some Python so I picked Django for my project. I want to build a simple web application that handles one specific task quickly. The backend stuff in Django makes sense to me, but I’m struggling with creating the frontend pages. Writing HTML and CSS from scratch feels overwhelming right now. Does anyone know of a good visual editor or drag-and-drop tool that I can use to design the frontend pages? Something that would let me create the layout visually and then integrate it with my Django views would be perfect. I’ve heard about WYSIWYG editors but I’m not sure which ones work well with Django projects. Any recommendations would be really helpful.
check out webflow too - you design visually and export the html/css. converting it to django templates takes some work, but it’s way easier than coding from scratch. the generated code’s pretty clean and you’ll learn a lot from how they structure everything.
Bootstrap Studio sounds perfect for what you’re doing. I made the same jump from backend to full-stack and this tool really helped bridge that gap. It spits out clean HTML and CSS that plays nice with Django templates. You design everything visually with Bootstrap components, export the code, then just drop in your Django template tags where you need them. Easy learning curve and you don’t have to write CSS from scratch while keeping control over everything. Once you get the hang of how it structures code, you can tweak it however you want. The exported code is solid and works great in Django’s template system.
try figma for mockups first. are you building this responsive or just desktop? you can design everything visually in figma, then either hand-code the templates or use tailwind css - it’s way less overwhelming than vanilla css. what components do you think you’ll need most?