You are in for a treat my friend. I will say that my short 4 or 5 encounters with Joomla were the reason took up django. I had never seen a line of python code in my life, but I was so thoroughly frustrated and irritated with Joomla that I took up a new language so I could use django.
The good news is that I'm pretty positive you'll enjoy django once you get up and running. The bad news is, there is no easy way to convert them over. Django is just a framework where Joomla is an integrated application. Different languages with different design philosophies, built for very different purposes, You're trying to turn Coke, into Mountain Dew. They're both liquid... both come in a can... and they both have caffeine - And that as about as far as the similarities go. When it comes to more complex templates in joomla, the nastiness that I have encountered is there is PHP code everywhere. It is in the javascript files, the css files - it genereates css files that have php code in them. In many cases, Django's templates system won't allow you to do things like this, and that is by design. Django's templates are far more flexible for the end user comared to joomla, I can't say much for OchsCMS however. The standard practice for building templates with django is to start with a full HTML page that is visually the way you want it and work backwards cutting it up in to parts. Luckily, Joomla has basically 3 template variations - Home page, List Page, and a Detail Page. What I would recommend doing is direct your browser to a sample of each of the page types you want, do a 'view source', copy&paste the code in to your editor and start working. On Jan 16, 1:48 pm, matt6486 <ma...@adtecinc.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know anything about Django and honestly would rather stick > with my current CMS, Joomla, as my current site design works fine with > the Joomla template I have now. However, the journalism department > will probably end up moving to a CMS based on Django called OchsCMS > from their current CMS Joomla against my wishes. > > Since there is not much I can do about them changing the CMS, I really > want to convert my Joomla template to an exact copy template, but just > in Django form that will wor with OchsCMS. Again, I am neither > familiar with Django at all nor do I know how to code well. So I ask > you more professional-minded people out there: Is there an easy way > (or at least a not-so-difficult way) to convert my Joomla files I have > now in a .zip folder to a Django template? > > Any help would be greatly be appreciated. And a short step-by-step > explanation would be amazing! > Thank you, > > Matthew
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