Hello, I am pretty new to all this. I have some coding experience, and am currently most comfortable with Python. I also have database design experience with MS Access, and have just created my first mySQL db.
So right now I have a mySQL db structure and some Python code. My end goal is to create a browser-based interactive fiction/game thing. My code is currently just using dummy data rather than pulling in data from the db, but I think/hope it won't be too big of a deal to interact with the db through Python (famous last words...). My main problem right now is how to do the web interface. I don't know much about web architecture, unfortunately. I think I need a CGI script? What I would really like is to find a GUI tool to design the interface that would have customizable templates or drag-and-drop elements or something, so I wouldn't have to code much by hand. Something easy, if such a tool exists. Also would prefer something that I would be able to install/use without having much access to the server where the site will be hosted (on a university server that I don't have control over). I don't fully understand how a lot of the tools I have been looking at work, but it seems like they're often things where you'd have to get an administrator to do stuff on the server (is that right?), which I would prefer to avoid. It looks like Django has some sort of standalone implementation, but I'm not clear on how that would work or how much of a learning curve there would be for using it. If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, I would really appreciate it. Hope my questions make sense. I don't really know what I'm doing, so could be they're a bit silly. I apologize if that's the case, and please let me know if you need any additional informmation. Thanks, Shel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list