Chapter 1 : Introduction to Django; Chapter 2 : Getting Started; Chapter 3 : Building a Social Bookmarking Application; Chapter 4 : User Registration and Management; Chapter 5 : Introducing Tags; Chapter 6 : Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax; Chapter 7 : Voting and Commenting; Chapter 8 Creating an Administration Interface; Chapter 9 : Advanced Browsing and Searching; Chapter 10 : Building User Networks; Chapter 11 : Extending and Deploying; Chapter 12 : What Next.

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In Detail

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 leverage its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured website. It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code. Each chapter will add new features to the site, and show what parts of Django to work on to build these features.

This book has been specifically written for Python developers new to Django, and it's goal is to help you put together Django applications as quickly as possible. This book will give you clear, concise and, of course, practical guidance to take you from the basics of creating pages with Django through to learning the skills that will make you a Django developer to be reckoned with.

What you will learn from this book?

* User registration and management
* Dealing with content customization and searching
* Working with the tag data model
* Creating your own administration interface
* Using AJAX to enhance the user interface
* Building user networks
* Setting up and deploying Django applications on the production web server

Approach

Being a beginner's guide this book has a very simple and clear approach. It is a practical guide that will help you learn the features of Django and help you build a dynamic website using those features.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for web developers who want to see how to build a complete site with Web 2.0 features, using the power of a proven and popular development system, but do not necessarily want to learn how a 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.
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Approach

Being a beginner's guide this book has a very simple and clear approach. It is a practical guide that will help you learn the features of Django and help you build a dynamic website using those features.
Who this book is written for

This book is for web developers who want to see how to build a complete site with Web 2.0 features, using the power of a proven and popular development system, but do not necessarily want to learn how a 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.