Good programmers steal. Great programmers steal from the best. Find a beautiful site and don't deviate much from his layout/CSS scheme.
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes, I suspected as much but was hoping for something easier than CSS. My > last adventure in CSS somehow put my navigation buttons squashed against > the right side of their div, and my footer ended up floating behind my main > content. Well, at least Django will make my projects and articles easier to > manage; good to know I'll still have to work out my CSS issues then. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 18, 2013, at 17:17, Bill Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Django still require templates, basically HTML from you, in order to make > content be delivered to the user's browser. It is still best to use CSS to > do things like positioning content into two or three columns with a header > a footer (a pretty standard organization). It still requires something > like Apache or nginx in front of it for a well performing and secure site, > which can server non-dynamic content just fine without Django. (If you are > getting as far as a shopping cart, or frequently updating prices and > available quantities, that is another story.) > > There are content management apps available for Django (my personal site > uses fiber), which allow much content creation and editing without looking > at HTML, but this is usually be means of a WYSIWYG editor (on the page > being edited, implemented using JavaScript), but I'm not sure how much that > helps you. > > Bill > > > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> As I said in my first post here, I despise CSS and laying out websites. I >> realize that much of that likely stems from my being legally blind, so I >> cannot check my work, use interactive CSS tools to practice coding and see >> results, or understand the subtile differences in styles or what happens to >> an enlarged page if I use em versus px. >> >> Anyway, is Django at all useful in laying out a basic website, one with >> little to no dynamic content? As mentioned previously, part of my site will >> include articles and recordings, but part of it is a collection of boring, >> basic pages for pricing, services, about, contact, and so on. Will Django >> be of any use here, or should I just use static files and render those in >> views for those URLs? Thanks. >> >> >> Have a great day, >> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
