Flask for Beginners: Build Your First Website with Python : Learn Web Development from Scratch with Real Projects, HTML Templates, and Live Deployment Tips

by Donald Ward

Build your first real website using Python—no advanced experience required.
With hands-on projects, modern tools, and clear guidance, this book takes you from basic Python knowledge to a fully deployed Flask web app.

This practical guide teaches you how to build web applications using Flask, one of Python’s most popular and beginner-friendly web frameworks. You’ll start by creating pages and templates, then move on to user forms, dynamic content, and working with a SQLite database. Along the way, you’ll use HTML, CSS, and Bootstrap 5 to design your front-end, while learning how to organize your code, manage user input, and structure your app the right way.

By the end, you’ll have built a complete blog project, learned how to deploy it online, and gained the skills to create your own custom apps with confidence.

Key

Build a complete blog website from scratch using Python and Flask

Create dynamic pages, forms, and route-based navigation

Store and retrieve data with SQLite using idiomatic Python

Use Jinja2 templating and Bootstrap 5 for modern, responsive design

Deploy your finished app using beginner-friendly tools like Render or PythonAnywhere

About the
Donald Ward is a developer and educator focused on helping beginners learn practical web development through clean code and hands-on projects.

Start coding your first website today with Flask for Beginners.

168 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 18, 2025

About the author

Donald Ward sold his first story to CBC when he was nineteen-years-old and has written professionally for the last forty years. His fiction is thoughtful and humourous and always accessible, no matter how fantastic his grounding premise may be. In 2004 his short fiction collection Nobody Goes to Earth Any More, won the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, and his story Badger won the 2009 CBC Literary Award. Ward is also an editor and book designer and his books have been awarded distinction at the annual Saskatchewan Book Awards. He has written, co-written, ghost-written, edited, and/or designed more than 120 volumes of non-fiction and fiction. Ward lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.