custmoizing admin using template files

[Christopher Spears]

Hi!

I am working through the Django tutorial, and I have reached the part where I want to customize my admin.  Basically,  I want 'Chris Spears App' to appear at the top of the page instead of 'Django administration'.

I copied the base_site.html file from its home to C:\Users\Chris\Documents\django_dev\mysite\templates\admin.

I then modified the file like so:

{% extends "admin/base.html" %}
{% load i18n %}

{% block title %}{{ title }} | {% trans 'Django site admin' %}{% endblock %}

{% block branding %}
<h1 id="site-name">{% trans 'Chris Spears App' %}</h1>
{% endblock %}

{% block nav-global %}{% endblock %}

I then modified the settings.py file:

import os

# Django settings for mysite project.

DEBUG = True
TEMPLATE_DEBUG = DEBUG

BASE_DIR = 'C:\Users\Chris\Documents\django_dev\mysite'
#BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

TEMPLATE_DIRS = [os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates')]

For some reason, I can't get the change to work.  I'm pretty sure that I am referencing the wrong file, but I can't figure out how to print the value of TEMPLATE_DIRS.  Any advice?