Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 01:14:37AM -0700, Daniel Roseman wrote:
> 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.

I was semi joking, I realise that this *isn't* how it works but so far
I'm not at all clear how it does work.

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Chris Green

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