Greg Lindstrom wrote: > Hello Everyone- > > I started learning Django at PyCon in Chicago and have worked most of > the way through the "Django Book" and Sams "Teach Yourself Django", as > well as "Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML". It's been quite a lot > for this old dog, but I'd like to take a crack a writing my own web > site using Django. I have two problems, and I think they are > related. The first is how to get images in my site and the next is > how to use css. > > I wrote Jacob about images and he was kind enough to point me to > documentation on how to get the web server to "serve" the images. I > hate to put it this bluntly, but I don't know what that means (I've > been programming database applications for 20 years and all this web > stuff is still pretty new to me). Is there something that explains to > someone like me how to get images into the site? Though I'm running > Django on my Ubuntu laptop, I would like to eventually have it > hosted. I would like to know how to "do" images locally, then what I > need to do when I host my site. > > The other problem is getting css to work with my site. I have set up > a base.html template (I love the templates, thank-you) and extend it > with other templates, call one greg.html. The html generates just as > I expect it to (overriding blocks just as it should), but it doesn't > "see" the style sheet. One it gets "in" the template I'm OK; the > "Head First" book did a pretty good job explaining it. I even put a > syntax error in my view so Django would list out the settings, but > couldn't find where Django is looking for the css file. I suspect it > is a similar problem to the images, but I just don't know. The basic point here is that while django is good for generating dynamic pages which are created in code from a database, it's not so good (quick / reliable / secure) for just serving static pages that don't change. So the preferred solution is to have django do the bit it's good at, and use a standard webserver to do the static pages (including images and css). There is a django module for serving static content, but the docs say this should only be used during development, not in your final site.
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