I started with Django not so many weeks ago.
I can recommend to study the source code to the Django site
itself. It helped me getting started to do real work as
there was a complete and working example to refer to. It can
be found at
http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/djangoproject.com/django_website/.
A direct download URL for the source code is:
http://code.djangoproject.com/changeset/10750/djangoproject.com/django_website?old_path=%2F&format=zip
(ZIP file, 61 KB).
And it is a good idea to read the first 5 chapters in the
Django book, starting at
http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/chapter01/
If you are interested in making a blog then I can recommend
this blog-entry by James Bennett:
http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2006/jul/03/django-tips-scaling-application/
"Django tips: scaling an application. Let’s build a blog."
