🌐 Personal Portfolio Website

A personal portfolio website built with HTML and CSS, with Bootstrap used only for error pages, and Django for the backend.
It showcases my work, experience, skills, and projects, along with a custom-built contact form that connects to the Django backend.

🚀 Live Site: Visit my portfolio

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🚀 Features

• 🎨 Modern UI built with custom CSS
• 📂 Portfolio Sections
  • 🏠 Home – Introduction & landing page
  • 👤 About – Personal details & background
  • 💼 Experience – Work history & achievements
  • 🛠️ Skills – Technical skills & tools
  • 📑 Projects – Highlighted personal & professional projects
  • ✉️ Contact – Manually created form with backend logic in views.py
• ⚡ Form Handling
  • ✔️ Saves valid submissions as objects in the database
  • ❌ Rejects invalid data and renders Bootstrap-based custom error pages
• ☁️ Deployed online using PythonAnywhere

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🛠️ Tech Stack

• Frontend: HTML, CSS (custom styling), Bootstrap (error pages only)
• Backend: Django (Python)
• Database: SQLite (default)
• Hosting: PythonAnywhere

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⚙️ Setup Instructions

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/your-username/portfolio-website.git
   cd portfolio-website

2. Create and activate a vitual environment

   python -m venv venv
   # On Linux/Mac
   source venv/bin/activate
   # On Windows
   venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install dependencies

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Apply database migrations

   python manage.py migrate

5. Start the development server

   python manage.py runserver

6. Open the website in your browser http://127.0.0.1:8000/

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📌 Roadmap / Future Improvements

• 🔄 Make website fully responsive using CSS and Bootstrap utilities
• 📊 Add more detailed project descriptions with images & links
• ✨ Enhance UI/UX with animations and smooth navigation

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✨ Feel free to fork this repo and use it as a base for your own portfolio!