The automatic admin application (aka "the admin") is an amazing feature of Django that saves countless hours of routine development work. To add that extra "finishing touch" to your application, you may want to change the color scheme of the admin pages to match your site, change some of the default page headers, and add outside links to the admin dashboard.
In this chapter, we will:
Explore how admin templates are structured
Override the necessary templates to customize the appearance of the admin
Change the default header of the admin pages
Add navigation links to the top of the admin page
Add an additional box of links to the admin dashboard
Override the admin stylesheet to match your site's color scheme