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A Second Page

Part of the Django Basics section of Coddy's Django journey. Lesson 2 of 23.

The café wants an About page. Django sends / to home because mysite/urls.py, the project's URLconf, says so:

urlpatterns = [
    path("", views.home),
]

Each path() pairs a route with a view. For a request to /faq/, Django drops the first slash, walks down urlpatterns and calls the view of the first route that matches faq/. When nothing matches, Django responds with 404 Page not found.

So a new page takes two steps: a view in views.py, and a path() to it in urls.py. Routes have no slash at the start and one at the end: "faq/", not "/faq/" or "faq".

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Challenge

Easy

Add an About page.

  1. In menu/views.py, add a view about that returns Corner Café opened in 2026.
  2. In mysite/urls.py, add a route about/ that points to views.about. Routes never start with a slash.

Open /about/ to see it.

Try it yourself

from django.urls import path

from menu import views

urlpatterns = [
    path("", views.home),
]

All lessons in Django Basics

1Your First Django Site

Hello, DjangoA Second PageProject lessonHTML From a ViewProject lessonProjects and AppsThe 404 Page

4Layouts and Static Files

Template InheritanceA Title for Every PageProject lessonIncluding a TemplateProject lessonStatic FilesProject lesson

2Dynamic URLs

Path ConvertersA Page for Every DrinkQuery StringsRaising Http404Project lessonNamed URLsProject lesson

5The Café Website

The Full MenuOpening HoursSite Navigation

3Templates

Your First TemplateTemplate VariablesProject lessonLoops in TemplatesConditions in TemplatesTemplate FiltersProject lessonLinks Between Pages

Practice on your own: Django playground