Steve Brauner

Steve Brauner

Freelance Python Developer

witnesstowisdom.com: A blogging website

witnesstowisdom.com index page.

index page – view live site

This is a Django based website focused on blogging. It is expandable to include a membership site, products, etc.

Welcome to Witness to Wisdom

Witnessing to wisdom for the spiritually independent.

There is a wisdom that runs through many traditions that speaks to the core of who we feel we really are.

This is a website where we witness to this wisdom, and talk about what it might mean in our daily lives.

Witness to Wisdom offers resources to enrich our journeys for living a deep and rich spiritual life:

  • weekly blog posts with reflections on this wisdom lived in our daily lives
  • newsletters sent weekly to your inbox so you don’t miss a thing

Design Specification

  • The Website will be written in Python and the Django framework.

  • There will be static pages for Home, About, and Contact Us.

  • The Blog will have categories, tags, and comments.

  • There will be a newsletter signup form.

Technical Specification

  • The website will have its own domain name.

  • The repo will live at GitHub and will be private for security.

  • The Python version will be the newest stable version.

  • Django and modules will be kept up to date.

  • The database will be PostgreSQL.

  • The site will be deployed in a Docker container.

  • The site will be deployed via aws with ssl certificate.

Coding Reflections

  • The database is on AWS RDS.

  • The ssl certificates are managed with Let’s Encrypt in a Nginx Proxy container.

  • Initial deployment was on fly.io and later converted to AWS S3 bucket with Cloudfront access.

Update

I found that the cost of deploying this on AWS was beyond my budget. I have since redeployed this site as a Jekyll based static site on AWS which no longer needs the extra cost of the database. A contact form is deployed with a AWS Lambda function.

Django Based Source Code

The Django based code is now public and hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/stevebrauner/witnesstowisdom

Jekyll Based Source Code and Live Site

The code repo for the Jekyll based site is hosted on GitHub at https://github.com/stevebrauner/witnesstowisdom-static. The live site is at https://witnesstowisdom.com.

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