Django 1.0 Website Development

Build powerful web applications, quickly and cleanly, with the Django application framework

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

Book Description

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

Who this book is for

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.