On Dec 23, 2009, at 7:43 PM, Dattatreya M wrote: > 1. @Shawn, Thanks for the reply. I appreciate you taking time to answer. > > 2. I am going through the Django tut....I was wondering if there is something > else that would save me hours of 're-inventing' the wheel (with regards to > designing websites using Django). (cook book/ for 'dummies' kind of a thing/ > etc...??) > > 3. By UI design, I mean, those flashy websites that people make. As it is, I > write code to manipulate data. For the first time I am hosting a page for the > world to access one of my statistical models. How do I make those > flashy-flashy things.. > > Regards, > Datta.
Well, Django lets you do anything you can do with any other server-side language. If you want to add animation and stuff like that, that's not Django. Nor is it PHP, ASP, or any other language or framework. You might want to look into Flash. Django doesn't make the "look and feel" of your site. It serves up the data. Even things like JavaScript are outside of Django's domain. It sounds to be like you aren't really looking for Django, but maybe something like Dreamweaver. The stuff you call "re-inventing the wheel" is what I call "learning to program." You have to copy what others have done to learn how it works, so you can then adapt it for yourself. However, if your statistical models exist in a database, and you'd like a friendly ORM [1] to use to write the logic behind your Web site, then I wholeheartedly recommend Django (and this mailing list). If you already have all the "programming" done and just want to make a pretty user interface and bells and whistles, look into Flash, jQuery, and Dreamweaver. Shawn [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_mapping -- 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.
