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Django: Web Development with Python

By : Aidas Bendoraitis, Samuel Dauzon, Arun Ravindran
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Django: Web Development with Python

By: Aidas Bendoraitis, Samuel Dauzon, Arun Ravindran

Overview of this book

Data science is hot right now, and the need for multitalented developers is greater than ever before. A basic grounding in building apps with a framework as minimalistic, powerful, and easy-to-learn as Django will be a useful skill to launch your career as an entrepreneur or web developer. Django is a web framework that was designed to strike a balance between rapid web development and high performance. This course will take you on a journey to become an efficient web developer thoroughly understanding the key concepts of Django framework. This learning path is divided into three modules. The course begins with basic concepts of the Django framework. The first module, Django Essentials, is like a practical guide, filled with many real-world examples to build highly effective Django web application. After getting familiar with core concepts of Django, it's time to practice your learning from the first module with the help of over 90 recipes available in this module. In the second module, Web Development with Django Cookbook, you'll learn varying complexities to help you create multilingual, responsive, and scalable websites with Django. By the end of this module, you will have a good understanding of the new features added to Django 1.8 and be an expert at web development processes.The next step is to discover the latest best practices and idioms in this rapidly evolving Django framework. This is what you'll be learning in our third module, Django Design Patterns and Best Practices. This module will teach you common design patterns to develop better Django code. By the end of the module, you will be able to leverage the Django framework to develop a fully functional web application with minimal effort.
Table of Contents (6 chapters)

Chapter 7. Django CMS

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Creating templates for Django CMS
  • Structuring the page menu
  • Converting an app to a CMS app
  • Attaching your own navigation
  • Writing your own CMS plugin
  • Adding new fields to the CMS page

Introduction

Django CMS is an open source content management system that is based on Django and created by Divio AG, Switzerland. Django CMS takes care of a website's structure, provides navigation menus, makes it easy to edit page content in the frontend, and supports multiple languages in a website. You can also extend it according to your needs using the provided hooks. To create a website, you need to create a hierarchical structure of the pages, where each page has a template. Templates have placeholders that can be assigned different plugins with the content. Using special template tags, the menus can be generated out of the hierarchical page structure. The CMS takes care of URL mapping to specific pages.

In this chapter...