I want to switch my sites from Drupal to Django. I already read a lot about Django and made a few sample apps. I think Django is better suited to my needs, but I do have a few questions that I couldn't find an answer for. So I thought of a few solutions that might do the trick. I'm not really a web designer or a programmer, so the terminology I use might be wrong.Some hints, references to sample-apps (so I can look at the code) or other resources on the internet are welcome.
1. URL generation The sites will have a substantial number of pages that will be generated. The content is stored in a database. I was thinking of creating a seperate table for page-names. E.g. pagename - database_id ( page-about-something.htm, id12345 ; category/ page-about-something.htm, id12345). I'll store these in a dictionary (name:, database_id) and use this to avoid duplicate names and keep track of already present names. This way I can also alias pages. Basically this is a question about how to handle a large number of different pages? 2. Layout of webpages - main content area I think I understand the templating system of Django. In Drupal there are a lot of ways to generate layouts and depending on the content ( areas such as head, above-content, content, left-column, right- column etc can be defined and depending on the context blocks of content can be displayed). The header/footer part isn't that difficult, but I'm having problems how to do the main content area.I'm not sure how to do this in Django (or start with it). For example: main content area - frontpage 3 columns with different components (widgets/blocks) in each column - normal page 2 columns (but may contain different outcomes depending on content) -- main content area -- column with different components (widgets, blocks) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
