jmDesktop wrote:
Django is very nice for building database models. Its power is that you can write basically a custom CMS on a per-project basis.I'm not really asking you for steps. I'm trying to understand why I'm using Django. I started out wanting to learn Python, and needing to do more web than anything, eventually deciding on Django. I keep reading that Django can help you make your own CMS, which is what I want. Are there any example tutorials or books that show you how to do that? I've looked at some of the books at Amazon, but I'm not sure if they'll teach what I want. Any resources are appreciated that actually build a CMS.
I wrote a Christmas List website for my wife's side of the family for this past Christmas. In its own way, it was a way for people to manage their own content-- they added what they wanted, and other people could see their list.
I am familiar with database design, and learning django was very nice.If you want a more general CMS, you would need to decide what type of content you want to manage. Articles, polls, a list of faculty, a picture portfolio, etc... You'd then create the models-- each article would be stored in a textfield. You could use filters and use rst or markdown. You could add a javascript html editor for use in the admin site. The bottom line is that django will assist you in building all the necessary things to manage content. The RSS framework looks very nice. I haven't used it, but it would make syndicating things a piece of cake. You'd also have to build templates and views to go along with your content models. You might have a view that can show you one article at a time. You might have a view that shows a list of articles.
You can have an app that is tailored specifically for your needs, or your clients' needs. Follow the tutorial, which shows you how to build a poll app. django is really quite nice. I highly recommend it.
Jeff Anderson
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