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WestSloth Games: New website with brand-new domain!

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In addition to game development hobby I have improved my web development skills by creating and developing websites for my own purposes. Now I have taken a step towards cloud services and web backend by releasing brand-new landing page for our released games: http://www.westsloth.com/ Page features: - Single-page, album-style design - Responsive, scales for all screen sizes - Admin console with login for adding/removing/modifying games entries easily Under the hood: - Django web framework - Bootstrap front-end component library - Local MySQL database. Option to use Postgresql e.g. from Amazon RDS - Gunicorn Python WSGI HTTP server - NGINX web server - Runs on single Amazon Lightsail instance (AWS EC2, in practice) - Amazon Route 53 for domain hosting and DNS Basically, building simple landing page using Django was surprisingly easy: There are plenty of good tutorials available all over the web and almost all issues were solved by googling error messages. It took me