title: How to use landing pages (bootstrap) in a Django project?
body: <p>I'm working on a Dajngo project and I want to include a landing page to use it for home page, I was trying to use it on my own and guiding me in tutorials but I could not get it to load the CSS style. I am new using this framework (bootstrap), could anyone help me identify my error to load the CSS style please?</p>
  
  <p><strong>Files:</strong></p>
  
  <p><em>setting.py</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>    INSTALLED_APPS = (
          'django.contrib.admin',
          'django.contrib.auth',
          'django.contrib.contenttypes',
          'django.contrib.sessions',
          'django.contrib.messages',
          'django.contrib.staticfiles',
          'crm', #app's name
          'bootstrap3',
      )
  
      TEMPLATES = [
          {
              'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
              'DIRS': [os.path.join(BASE_DIR,'templates')],
              'APP_DIRS': True,
              'OPTIONS': {
                  'context_processors': [
                      'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                      'django.template.context_processors.request',
                      'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                      'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                  ],
               },
           },
      ]
  
      STATIC_URL = '/static/'
      STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
      LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL = '/'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>mysite\urls.py</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>from django.conf.urls import include, url
  from django.contrib import admin
  from django.views.generic.base import RedirectView#TemplateView
  from django.core.urlresolvers import reverse
  from django.shortcuts import redirect
  from crm import views
  admin.autodiscover()
  
  urlpatterns = [
      url(r'^$', views.HomePageView.as_view()),
      url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
      url(r'', include('crm.urls')),
  ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>crm\urls.py</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>from django.conf.urls import url, include
  from django.contrib import admin
  from crm import views
  
  urlpatterns = [
      url(r'^$', views.HomePageView.as_view()),
      url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
      url(r'^', include('crm.urls')),
  ]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>crm\views.py</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>from django.shortcuts import render
  from django.views.generic import TemplateView
  
  # Create your views here.
  class HomePageView(TemplateView):
      def get(self, request, **kwargs):
          return render(request, 'crm/index.html', context=None)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><em>bootstrap\index.html</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  
  &lt;head&gt;
  
      &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
      &lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"&gt;
      &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"&gt;
      &lt;meta name="description" content=""&gt;
      &lt;meta name="author" content=""&gt;
  
      &lt;title&gt;Freelancer - Start Bootstrap Theme&lt;/title&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Bootstrap Core CSS --&gt;
      &lt;link href="vendor/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Theme CSS --&gt;
      &lt;link href="css/freelancer.min.css" rel="stylesheet"&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- Custom Fonts --&gt;
      &lt;link href="vendor/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"&gt;
      &lt;link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:400,700" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"&gt;
      &lt;link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Lato:400,700,400italic,700italic" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"&gt;
  
      &lt;!-- HTML5 Shim and Respond.js IE8 support of HTML5 elements and media queries --&gt;
      &lt;!-- WARNING: Respond.js doesn't work if you view the page via file:// --&gt;
      &lt;!--[if lt IE 9]&gt;
          &lt;script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/html5shiv/3.7.0/html5shiv.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
          &lt;script src="https://oss.maxcdn.com/libs/respond.js/1.4.2/respond.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      &lt;![endif]--&gt;
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In my crm folder I have 2 folders, static and templates folders and inside of them CSS files and HTML files respectively. I want to use this template <a href="https://startbootstrap.com/template-overviews/freelancer/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Freelancer</a>. Any comment is of help, thanks.</p>