Re: Project Structure - Lots of scattered custom views

Héllo Chad,

I'd like to help but I need more infos if you don't mind and is granted to provide them.

On Monday, January 7, 2013 9:52:35 PM UTC+1, chad petzoldt wrote:

Right now my project only has 2 apps that use a database (*real* apps). The rest of the website is composed of many custom views, scattered all over the place. I am new to Django, and I havn't quite figured out how to structure my project directory just yet.

What do this two apps ?

The other *issue* is related to my design/develop workflow. Working completely through an internet browser just isnt possible for 80% of the project cycle. We have many programs which want to work directly on the filesystem (on an offline machine), mostly coming from the Adobe Creative Suite.

I don't understand this part, are you programming in the browser ? or is it just about the design phase of each «Articles/bundle», work prior or in parallel of programming the site ?

 

There are all kinds of media documents and markups forming "Articles". These Articles are passed around as bundles during design, and then when they get to me I have to tie them together very neatly and push them onto the website. The one thing I do have control over is the Url layout, and the navigation of these articles.

Should I be splitting each of these "articles" into their own apps (a directory with little more than 'templates/' and 'static/').

 

I'm not sure but what you describe looks like a (e)magazine with several issues (you call them Articles/bundle) where each issue has it's own layout/design - and probably navigation but it seems also there is a global menu - a cross issues menu - present on all issues.

This makes synchronization easy with the server, there is no database interaction required;

I assume by «synchronization» you mean «putting the new "Articles" in production».

 

the only task left after the sync is for me to update my navigation widgets (which I currently just do by hand). 

Can you describe this navigation widget ? Is it available over all apps/Articles/issues ?

Do the Articles gets modified after the first synchronization ? Do you have somekind of administration to edit them ?

In the other mail you say «But I still find myself creating bare apps with some crazy model defined that only has 1 table row.», could you describe one of this table/row and generalize to the other similar tables ?

Regards,

Amirouche

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