onetencommunications.com is live!
I just finished a long, productive week of work. The highlight of the week was getting the website for one:ten communications up on the web. It was really a whirlwind project. I think we started seriously thinking about it last week and didn’t start putting things together till early this week.
My primary contribution was the implementation: html, css, and a bit of Django. I’ve mostly seen—and mostly used—Django in the context of dynamic websites. In this case, we have a website that is pretty much just sits there. While it’s probably overkill, it turns out that Django can make your life easier when it comes to making web sites that are traditionally done with just html or maybe a smattering of php.
The flatpages is the key app here. With Django’s admin, I can add, remove, and edit pages easily. Then, I put together a couple templates to abstract out the common elements between the standard pages and the profile pages. That made me happy. Having to make header or footer changes across a bunch of pages is not a good way to do things.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:05 pm
I’ve been using Drupal for more and more and am getting the hang of it… kinda. Yesterday I launched whiterockcoffee.com and although the site looks the same, it’s now powered by Drupal. And thanks to the TinyMCE plugin, I can give their people access to edit whatever they want.
July 31st, 2006 at 10:07 pm
I guess I should say that Drupal does have a huge learning curve, but once I got the hang of it, it works pretty well. I also got to customize a couple things and figure out the great ways in which you can override functions on the theme or module level. It’s cool.