Templates,layout, css, ie and Pyjamas

[grant neale]

Hi,

I'm a hobbyist and do not have a lot of time on my hands to do front
end (templates, css) stuff.
I was looking around and saw that pyjamas takes care of the layout of
the user interface.

Is this a reasonable solution to use instead of Django's templates?
Are there any other solutions out there that would let me develop the
layout quicker or easier?

Obviously I'm not too thrilled about making sure that all the browsers
look good.

Can anyone help me?

Grant

[Ishwor Gurung]

Hi,

2009/11/10 grant neale <gne...@mac.com>:

>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a hobbyist and do not have a lot of time on my hands to do front
> end (templates, css) stuff.

Hire a professional to do you it for you.

> I was looking around and saw that pyjamas takes care of the layout of
> the user interface.

This is Django list FYI.

[...]

> Are there any other solutions out there that would let me develop the
> layout quicker or easier?

Templates are easy. If you know some HTML, it shouldn't take very long
to figure out django templates.

> Obviously I'm not too thrilled about making sure that all the browsers
> look good.

If you can abstract out browser specific functionality, should be good
across all major browsers - Firefox, IE, Chrome....

> Can anyone help me?
Google - Django templates. If you leave in Sydney, drop me an email
off list. I can help you out for coupla beers ;-)

--
Regards,
Ishwor Gurung

[grant neale]

Hi Ishwor,

I'm in France I'm afraid.
Is there any solution out there for getting the basics up and running
and then going into the "beauty contest" later?
Or are you just saying that it's hard, just eat your lunch?

If you ever come to France, I can send you some links on where to
stay. :)

Thanks'

[Ishwor Gurung]

Grant,
Hi

2009/11/10 grant neale <gne...@mac.com>:

>
> Hi Ishwor,
>
> I'm in France I'm afraid.
> Is there any solution out there for getting the basics up and running

- Download a copy of Django and give it a go.
- Extract it to a folder
- Run 'python setup.py install';
- Go to django directory
- python django-admin.py startproject <foo>
- Go to <foo>
- python manage.py startapp <bar>
- Code away latest greatest app.. Your application logic in views.py,
your database models in models.py and your Django template in some
HTML file (say templates.html)
- Fix your settings.py,urls.py accordingly.
- python manage.py runserver
- Point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/

All the instructions are already there in the docs if you get confused
or something...

When you get to a point where you can't do something, ask in the list.
Someone should be able to help you out real quick.

> and then going into the "beauty contest" later?
> Or are you just saying that it's hard, just eat your lunch?

It's too easy to call label it 'hard'. This mail took me 2 mins to
write. Imagine the possibility with what you can do with Django.
Last week, wonderful Peter of SyPy Fame gave a talk on GeoDjango. Twas
fun to say the least...

> If you ever come to France, I can send you some links on where to
> stay. :)

Sure nice thing. Thanks. I'll keep note of that :-)
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Regards,
Ishwor Gurung