I agree I'll be limiting things. And I don't expect that you'd be able to download the templates from this website and plug it into your own without any modification what so ever. The standardization comes from the limiting of what I actually put in the context-dictionary when I render the template.
I hope this will become a resource for people to download templates that they can "tinker" into their own django programs. I've noticed that everytime I start a django project I get the views, forms, models, etc. programmed easily but I stare at a blank editor screen trying to write the template. If I had a place to go and find a "slick-looking" template to tinker with I'd be able to do things even faster. I'm hoping to make this into an ideal place for people to demonstrate the tricks they use in constructing their templates ... stuff like how they arrange the "blocks", which css items they use, whether they use lists or tables, how they implement 'nav-bars', etc. On Jan 1, 5:12 pm, aditya <bluemangrou...@gmail.com> wrote: > Will, > Django is much more flexible over template-based systems like > Wordpress or Tumblr. Wordpress standardizes a lot of things so generic > templates are easy to make and will work on just about any Wordpress > installation. It seems to me like to have templates in Django you'd > have to standardize things somehow...but that would result in loss of > flexibility. > > Aditya > > On Jan 1, 1:06 pm, Will Dampier <judow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > An open call, > > > This is Will Dampier, I've been an avid python and django programmer for the > > past two years or so. I've worked on a few in-house django projects and > > I've been looking for a project to "give-back" to the community. I've > > always worked on the "programming" side of projects and have only dabbled on > > the "design" side. Whenever I've started a new project I've scoured the > > internet for django templates that come complete with css, images, etc. and > > always come up empty. > > > So I was thinking of making a "meta"-django project. I could make a site > > that allows designers to upload django-templates against a well defined set > > of models, views, forms, etc. Then users could switch between templates and > > see how more "complex" examples function. This would be useful for > > designers to advertise their skills and for newbies to get a richer set of > > functions. Something akin to the CSS Zen Garden. > > > I'm looking for a collaborator or two ... or even just a few people to pick > > their brains about some of the details. I have some code in a git-hub > > repositoryhttp://github.com/JudoWill/DjangoTemplateRepository/andI've got > > about a dozen google-wave invitations if people would like to try > > collaborating that way. If you wouldn't mind either forwarding this to > > anyone you think would be interested or posting it on your blog. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Will -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
