On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 6:04 PM Philip Means <means....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am new to web development. Wanted to help my daughter with a simple > website (she does pet portraits) and learn something that interests me. I > watched some you tube tutorials, then bought a book. First couple simple > projects went OK. Then I got to templates and I have not been able to get > the example project to work. Been banging my head against the wall for > about a week. Part of the problem is my directory structure does not look > like the authors and so I am not sure I am putting things in the right > place. When I go searching for another explanation of how to set it up, I > find that nobody seems to do it the same way. Also, I find the jargon > confusing. At this point I just want to display a simple html page. If > this is in the wrong place, maybe someone can direct me to a better one. > > -- > 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/fe83a557-759d-460d-96ec-2c7fd18117bb%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/fe83a557-759d-460d-96ec-2c7fd18117bb%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > Django is a framework that supports a lot of features, and that means there's a lot of moving parts. However, similar to driving a car, you need to know a few things to get things working, rather than knowing the niceties of how everything works. To address your point about project structure, there's a lot of opinions on this (most of them are subjective). I have a structure I use and I'm comfortable with, but Django will support some variety in this. Without seeing what code you have and what happens that is not expected, we don't know where we can help. So, to help us understand, we need to know a few things. 1. What steps did you take to get here? 2.. What goes wrong? If there's a traceback, copying and pasting it is invaluable. 3. We may ask to see code. Again, copying and pasting that will help us understand what is going on. You said that your project isn't working once you get to templates. Is there a book or tutorial you are following? That might help us know where to start. In addition to this list, there is a forum at forum.djangoproject.com (I follow posts in there as well). That might be another resource for you, as sometimes the question you have has already been answered. -Jorge -- 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 django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CANfN%3DK9POCHxkn8-OoU2Yoy3rj%3D%3D9%3DPVOZo0E07fOrPbqcV87w%40mail.gmail.com.
