Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

On Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:55:33 UTC+1, Chris Green wrote:

I'm an experienced programmer (started around 1971 or so!) and I've done
lots of things over the years, much of my background is in Unix (Solaris).
In the last few years I have done quite a lot of web related stuff.

I'm trying to get my mind round django.  I have it installed on my
unbuntu server, it works, I've worked through tutorials 1 and 2 and a
bit of 3.  I can get the admin screens up and the basics of the polls
example work.

However two rather basic things still elude me:-

    Where/how do I actually start creating the top level/page of a web
    site?   Do I just open vi and create some HTML and embed django
    code?  That seems unlikely but I can't see anywhere that tells me
    what the code that creates a django site looks like and/or where it
    resides.   An actual example of a two or three page working django
    based web site would be a huge help.

You *really* need to do the tutorial. If you think that "creating HTML and embedding Django code" is how it works, then you haven't read it. That's not how it works at all.

If you want to see some working Django sites, look at http://www.djangosites.org/with-source/ - but none of them will make much sense until you've got the basics.

 

    I can't see anywhere that seems to tell me the issues involved with
    moving from using the built in web server to using apache2 (or
    whatever, I have apache2 on my system).

Don't worry about this yet. Learn Django first, then worry about deployment.

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DR.

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