This is a simple blog created with Python 2.7 to run on Google App Engine.

This blog was inspired from the CS253 course I took on Udacity.com. The blog has been greatly improved to include optimized, efficient and practical code. I mainly created it as a learning experience for web development and I also needed a blog for my own use.

This blog uses the following:

• Python 2.7
• Google App Engine
• Google's db
• Google's Gql for queries
• HTML5 Boilerplate v4.0.0 (via the initializr.com)
• Titter Bootstrap v2.1.1 (via the initializr.com)
• Modernizer v2.6.1 (via the initializr.com)
• jQuery v1.8.1 (via the initializr.com)
• jinja2 templates (via Google App Engine)

Once the app has been uploaded to your App Engine Account, do the following steps:

• Download files to the directory you want to upload to Google App Engine.
• Once all the files have been uploaded, visit http://www.YOURDOMAINNAME.com/blog/admin to create an initial admin account.
• The default username and password in the config.py file is 'admin' and 'password', respectively.
• Visit the login section of the page and type in the default username and password.
• Visit the change username and change password sections of the site to create a unique username and a more secure password.
• Once this is complete, open the blog_handlers.py file and delete the AdminHandler class towards the bottom.
• Delete '('/blog/admin', AdminHandler),' from the url routing list in the blog.py file.
• Upload the files once again to Google App Engine, which should disable the '/blog/admin' URI from working.
• You are ready to use the blog.

A sample version of this blog is located at http://gae-simple-blog.appspot.com