I've had per-project views (in the project root), I've had apps
feeding indexes, and I've gone direct to template using template tags
to fill in snippets needed. Most times -- but not always -- the last
approach seems the most flexible and easiest.


On Nov 7, 1:19 pm, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mull...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not exactly clear on the question, but I'll share with you what I've
> done on my site.
>
> For pages like the "Home Page", I've created an application called "core".
> Then I just call my <project>.core.views.HomePageView.as_view() from the
> "urls.py" file under my main project directory. The regular expression I
> use, which is also an example in the default urls.py, is simply u'^$' (I
> think -- I'd have to double check).
>
> Hopefully that helps a little bit, sorry if I was completely off. I do kind
> of get the feeling that you want a views.py right in your project root. I
> believe it's possible (I've seen examples of it somewhere in the docs) but
> I personally don't go that route and have never tried it.
>
> Also, if your home page is just a simple template and there's no need for a
> lot of functionality behind it, you can do this:
>
> url(u'^$', TemplateView.as_view(template_name = 'home_page.html')),
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:12 PM, M. Herold <digitallim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've developed a number of apps and stuck them into my django
> > framework, but in looking to create a hub at the index of my site
> > (among other standard pages; e.g. about, network, etc.), I've sort of
> > gotten stuck. Do I really want to create another app and just redirect
> > from my index, having a sort of "index" app? Is there a clever way to
> > have a "top level" app?
>
> > Thanks in advance
> > Michael
>
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