Re: best practice for portal-like pages?

2007-06-07 Thread patrick k.
did you take a look at the scripts I provided? it seems that this might solve your problem. another thing: my question was not about doing a CMS, it´s about combining and displaying different types of content on portal-like pages (which, of course, might be part of a CMS). and it´s also

Re: best practice for portal-like pages?

2007-06-07 Thread omat
I am also in need of such a flexible yet easy to manage content system, mostly for small company websites. In my primitive prototype, I have pages that are built-up of sections. Each section has its own template and can hold text, images, etc. Also, I am planning to add the ability to display

Re: best practice for portal-like pages?

2007-06-07 Thread patrick k.
this is just another request for feedback. I know that there are some newspaper-sites out there, made with django. so, I assume, they´ve solved this issue. It´d be great to know how they make/construct the overview- resp. front-pages (in a way to make changes easily for editors). thanks,

Re: best practice for portal-like pages?

2007-06-03 Thread oggie rob
Ahh, yeah, I suppose so! I didn't really think the rendered text through, and you're right that it has the same flexibility. -rob On Jun 3, 2:40 am, "patrick k." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > actually, I don´t have to change the view for whatever layout I want > to have with my approach ... > >

Re: best practice for portal-like pages?

2007-06-02 Thread patrick k.
what´s the advantage of including the sub-templates in the template instead of rendering them in the view? rendering the templates in the view seems to be a bit more flexible when it comes to caching, I guess. besides, a custom entry could have its own specific template - so, I ´m not sure

best practice for portal-like pages?

2007-06-02 Thread patrickk
This is a problem we´re having with every webpage we did with django so far. Now, I´d like to make this more generic and write a tutorial for how a portal-like page could be done using django. As an example, let´s say we have a database with movies, stars (actors, writers, directors ...),