On 11/16/05, patrick k <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the content-ares should consist of small blocks (film, star, interview ...). > the site-editor should be able to MOVE these blocks around (change the > position of the block), EDIT the block (e.g. assigning a different film-ID) > and DELETING the block. this should be done within the ADMIN-INTERFACE (not > touching any code).
Hi Patrick, Welcome to the Django community -- thanks for the introduction. :) What you're describing is definitely possible with Django. We've solved that exact problem on lawrence.com and ljworld.com, which have been powered by Django for some time now. I assume this presentation "moving" would be limited to the home page, right? If so, here's the strategy I'd recommend: Create a "home page" object, which would just store the presentation decisions for the home page for a given date/time range. This could be editable in the admin. Then just write a view that grabs the appropriate home page object and renders the home page. Alternatively, if every page of your site has *separate* logic about presentation, which is required to be editable in the admin, then you'll want to create a "page" model, which has foreign keys to the types of content it's displaying, a field for the URL, and fields representing the order. This is a bit hard to explain, but I hope this has helped. Adrian -- Adrian Holovaty holovaty.com | djangoproject.com | chicagocrime.org
