On Apr 18, 9:40 pm, M Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 14:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:> For what it's > worth, I found Django to be LESS work than Mambo/Joomla, > > just because I wasted an ungodly amount of time trying to make Mambo > > do what I wanted. > > Did you get on-board with the Django book, or something else? > > -- > Kind regards, > > M Harris <><
The book is a very good place to start. The development team has managed to take all of the different sorts of documentation and examples spread over the main site and crunch it down into digestible pieces. I wish the book had been around when I first started playing with Django. :) I can say I used Mambo before the split, and have toyed with Joomla afterwards and Django has proven far more intuitive to use for building custom applications. Like the house analogy, if you only need it for a simple CMS, Joomla may be your best bet. If you want to add features and have complete control, however, Django would be better. Not to mention, the zen of Django is specifically content management at a very abstract level - you define what content is, and it manages the rest. You just fill in the blanks as to how it looks and functions. The best part is, if you put together the models first, the clients can start adding and manipulating content before you're done with all of the functionality - just give them access to the admin panel, if you want. -- Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
