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Learning Website Development with Django

Learning Website Development with Django

By : Ayman Hourieh
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Learning Website Development with Django

Learning Website Development with Django

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By: Ayman Hourieh
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Overview of this book

Being a beginner's guide this book has a very simple and clear approach. It is a practical guide that will help you learn the features of Django and help you build a dynamic website using those features. This book is for web developers who want to see how to build a complete site with Web 2.0 features, using the power of a proven and popular development system, but do not necessarily want to learn how a complete framework functions in order to do this. Basic knowledge of Python development is required for this book, but no knowledge of Django is expected.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Learning Website Development with Django
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Learning Website Development with Django
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
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Introduction to Django
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Introduction to Django
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The MVC Pattern in Web Development
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Why Python?
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Why Django?
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History of Django
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Summary
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Getting Started
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Getting Started
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Installing the Required Software
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Creating Your First Project
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Summary
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Building a Social Bookmarking Application
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Building a Social Bookmarking Application
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A Word about Django Terminology
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URLs and Views: Creating the Main Page
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Models: Designing an Initial Database Schema
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Templates: Creating a Template for the Main Page
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Putting It All Together: Generating User Pages
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User Registration and Management
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User Registration and Management
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Session Authentication
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Improving Template Structure
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User Registration
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Account Management
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Summary
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Introducing Tags
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Introducing Tags
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The Tag Data Model
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Creating the Bookmark Submission Form
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A Word on Security
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Summary
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Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax
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Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax
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Ajax and Its Advantages
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Using an Ajax Framework in Django
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The jQuery JavaScript Framework
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Implementing Live Searching of Bookmarks
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Editing Bookmarks in Place
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Auto-Completion of Tags
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Voting and Commenting
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Voting and Commenting
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Sharing Bookmarks on the Main Page
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Commenting on Bookmarks
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Creating an Administration Interface
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Creating an Administration Interface
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Activating the Administration Interface
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Customizing the Administration Interface
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Users, Groups and Permissions
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Advanced Browsing and Searching
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Advanced Browsing and Searching
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Adding RSS Feeds
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Advanced Searching
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Organizing Content into Pages (Pagination)
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Building User Networks
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Building User Networks
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Building Friend Networks
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Inviting Friends Via Email
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Improving the Interface with Messages
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Extending and Deploying
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Extending and Deploying
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Internationalization (i18n)
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Improving Performance with Caching
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Unit Testing
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Deploying Django
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What Next?
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What Next?
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Custom Template Tags and Filters
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Model Managers and Custom SQL
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Generic Views
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Contributed Sub-Frameworks
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Message System
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Subscription System
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User Scores
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Index
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Index

Chapter 6. Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax

The coming of Ajax was an important landmark in the history of Web 2.0. Ajax is a group of technologies that enable developers to build interactive, feature-rich web applications. Most of these technologies were available many years before Ajax itself. However, the advent of Ajax represents the transition of the web from static pages that need to be refreshed whenever data was exchanged to dynamic, responsive and interactive user interfaces.

Since our project is a Web 2.0 application, it should be heavily focused on the user experience. The success of our application depends on getting users to post and share content on it. Therefore, the user interface of our application is one of our major concerns. This chapter will improve the interface of our application by introducing Ajax features, making it more user-friendly and interactive.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

  • Ajax and the benefits of using it in web applications.

  • How...

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