Django 1.0 Website Development

Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, making it easier to build high-performance web applications faster, with less code.
This book will show you how to assemble Django's features and take advantage of its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured web site. It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code examples.
Specially revised for version 1.0 of Django, the book starts by introducing the main design concepts in Django. Next, it leads you through the process of installing Django on your system. After that, you will start right away on building your social bookmarking application using Django. Various Django 1.0 components and sub-frameworks will be explained during this process, and you will learn about them by example.
In each chapter, you will build one or more of the features that are essential in Web 2.0 applications, like user management, tags, and AJAX. You will also learn about good software development practices, such as keeping your application secure, and automating testing with unit tests. By the end of the book, you will have built a fully functional real-life Web 2.0 application, and learned how to deploy it to a production server.

Type
ebook
Category
publication date
2009-03-10
what you will learn

Register your users through a user authentication system and manage them efficiently

Restrict user access to certain pages and protect against malicious input

Create tags to allow site visitors to classify, view, and share content easily

Create your own administration interface for proper monitoring of the web site

Enhance your user interface with AJAX and add flavors to your web site

Enable voting and commenting on content, and display popular content to site visitors

Build user networks; add friend management and invitation features for social networking

Create unit tests to automate the testing of code

no of pages
272
duration
544
key features
Teaches everything you need to create a complete Web 2.0-style web application with Django 1.0 * * Learn rapid development and clean, pragmatic design * * No knowledge of Django required * * Packed with examples and screenshots for better understanding
approach
The simple and clear approach is ideal for beginners to Django. Packed with examples and screenshots, this book will help you learn the features of Django 1.0 and help you build a dynamic website using those features.
audience
This book is for web developers who want to learn to build a complete site with Web 2.0 features, using the power of a proven and popular development system, Django, but do not necessarily want to learn how the 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.
meta description
Build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework
subtitle
Build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework
keywords
Django, Django 1.0, web 2.0, web2.0, python, framework, social bookmarking, AJAX, tag, social networking
Product ISBN
9781847196781