Re: a bit confused about projects/apps

2013-07-17 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks for the responses. I had considered a cms, but I'd like the practice of making one for myself, at least to start with. Since Django already takes care of users, admins, and (I presume) security, much of the hard work of a cms is already taken care of. My understanding is that I need only

Re: a bit confused about projects/apps

2013-07-17 Thread Brian Schott
Unless you really want to build it all from scratch, you might want to look at a CMS framework such as Mezzanine (http://mezzanine.jupo.org), DjangoCMS (https://www.django-cms.org), FeinCMS. Think of a project as a Django web server configuration. In the end, manage.py and settings.py are

Re: a bit confused about projects/apps

2013-07-17 Thread Rafael E. Ferrero
Would my entire site be one project, with apps for programming projects, writings/recordings, and ecommerce? I suggest to you must think an apps like independents projects. An app can to be cuted and pasted into other project and work just fine, with that you can have an app to handle user

a bit confused about projects/apps

2013-07-17 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I currently have a boring, small, plain website to give the essential information about my business. I hope to add a projects section, to host programming projects I have done, a section for hosting articles/tutorials/recordings, and, eventually, an ecommerce system so i can charge for