On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Josh <jos.carpente...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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. <snip> > I'm not really a web designer or a programmer, <snip> Then stick with Drupal. Drupal is a CMS. Django is a framework. There's a *big* difference. > 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. > > -- 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.
