My team has a designer (designs stuff in Photoshop), a front-end developer who is comfortable taking designer's photoshop and converting it to HTML/CSS/Javascript (and does a bit with django templates), and then the back-end team (myself and co.) who put the django behind it. We are a very design-driven company, and that complicates my life a bit to put the django behind it (particularly working with forms, where the front end guys have a lot of fancy controls and ajaxy page flows, etc., which are not uncomplicated to implement on the backend), but the sites end up looking cool and (eventually) working nicely and in a very user-friendly way.
But I would guess not all startup companies, and particularly web developers who aren't working for a company, have these competencies, in which case you may look to buy or find public domain html templates and tweak them and put the code behind them as the previous poster suggests. Also, Sencha (Ext JS) is a framework that seems to be geared toward companies/people where web developers and computer scientists who are more comfortable with object oriented programming than html and css have to carry the burden of making a nice front-end for their site, since the framework manages and dynamically creates a lot of the HTML and CSS for you and allows you to write stuff in an object-oriented framework built on javascript. We looked at sencha but our front-end/ HTML guy hated it so we are sticking with Jquery even though I would probably go with sencha if i wanted a very ajaxy site but didn't have him around to tweak all the html/css stuff. Not sure if/how sencha plays nicely with Django forms -- in my mind there may be some challenges there, given the two design philosophies, where sencha renders your forms automatically for you based on your object definitions. Ben n Jun 5, 12:52 am, raj <nano.ri...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm a very beginner developer. I'm just wondering how you got the > actual styling together? Did you bang all that out with photoshop/css/ > javascript or something? Cause I want to make a website, but I don't > know if I should go ahead and learn this way, or if there is an easier > way. Thank you. > -Raj > -- 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.
