Re: a bit confused about projects/apps

Thanks for the responses. I had considered a cms, but I'd like the practice of making one for myself, at least to start with. Since Django already takes care of users, admins, and (I presume) security, much of the hard work of a cms is already taken care of. My understanding is that I need only build the models, views, and templates, then hook them all together, and off I go.

Thinking of a project as a server does help. You also make a good point about authentication - a user should remain logged in across all parts of my site. I don't currently plan to allow user accounts, only my own admin account, but that may change, so I should plan for it now. If I implement a commerce system, I will, of course, need user account handling anyway. In fact, in writing this, it occurs to me that I should allow comments on articles, requiring accounts. Anyway, thanks to both of you for the help.
On Jul 17, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Brian Schott <bfschott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Unless you really want to build it all from scratch, you might want to look at a CMS framework such as Mezzanine (http://mezzanine.jupo.org), DjangoCMS (https://www.django-cms.org), FeinCMS.
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> Think of a project as a Django web server configuration. In the end, manage.py and settings.py are just Python, so you can build hierarchy if you want and use introspection to import file/directory settings hierarchy.
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> However, it sounds like you have a collection of very interrelated apps, so it probably makes sense to keep it in a single project for your site. We have a base site and several rebranded copies, so we have multiple project directories in our code tree, but each server is just one project. Don't forget, there are global things like user authentication you don't want to have a user have to login separately to go to blog.example.com from www.example.com.
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> Brian
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> On Jul 17, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Alex Hall <mehgcap@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> I currently have a boring, small, plain website to give the essential information about my business. I hope to add a projects section, to host programming projects I have done, a section for hosting articles/tutorials/recordings, and, eventually, an ecommerce system so i can charge for some of it. In the future, I also hope to have a remote instruction system using some sort of VOIP (I am a technology instructor), which will also be paid.
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>> So, what might my setup look like? Would my entire site be one project, with apps for programming projects, writings/recordings, and ecommerce? Should I use different projects? If I create a project and then later decide I want to move it up a level, to the main website directory, can I do that, or are there too many import statements I'd have to change? I know an app is portable and pluggable, but is a project? Are you only ever supposed to have a single project for a website? What about subdomains - should one project run everything, or should each subdomain have its own project, even if you have to copy apps? Sorry for all the questions, I just want to be sure I do it right before I actually begin developing anything. Thanks.
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>> Have a great day,
>> Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini)
>> mehgcap@gmail.com
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