A quick step by step guide on how to create a root page in your new Django app.
Create a views.py file at the root of the app (not the project):

Import the HttpResponse module from django:
from django.http import HttpResponse
Define the response to a view request, for example a welcome page:
def welcome(request): return HttpResponse("Hello World")
Open urls.py and import the response from the new views file:
from .views import welcome
Add a line to urlpatterns to:
url(r'^$', welcome)
This points the root ‘^$’ to the welcome response we defined in our new views.py script:
Run the server with:
python manage.py runserver