If you want to build something like Upwork, then Django is definitely a good option, but of course, as you have guessed, you have really much learning to do.
Regards, Antonis Antonis Christofides http://djangodeployment.com On 01/30/2017 02:27 PM, Danny Jr Chu wrote: > I will consider your professional advise Antonis. However, what I would like > to build is a (1st) freelancer website (upwork or like), I know that there are > hundreds of these right now, but with a subtle twist and to offer both client > and contractor something more, it may be feasible. (2nd) I fail to find Angel > Investor so I have to cut cost everything to the rock bottom, I have a lot of > time available to study and (plus motivation of course) and (3nd) I've done > number of websites with blogspot (but plugins are paid monthly). So, I was > thinking to do it myself the backbone with Django. > Please tell me more what I should have know to bring this project to life. > > Thanks for your support, > Danny > > On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 6:54:58 PM UTC+8, Antonis Christofides wrote: > > If you want to just make a web site, Django is the wrong thing for you. > Django is not for building web sites, it's for building web applications. > You might instead want to look at Mezzanine or Django-CMS or Wagtail > (these are all software for building web sites and they're based on > Django), or, if being based on Django is not a requirement, you can use > Wordpress or Drupal. There are really many more, there must be tens. I > believe the most popular is Wordpress. > > If you use any of these and install it on a server, you will only need to > pay for the domain and hosting (and spend considerable time setting it > up). > > If you use wordpress.com <http://wordpress.com>, they set it up for you, > so you don't need to install it yourself, and the cost is probably less > than getting a virtual server to install stuff yourself. > > I don't want to discourage you from using Django if it's for you. I just > don't want you to get the impression that "Django is > bad/complicated/painful" when you just might be using it for the wrong > purpose. > > Regards, > > Antonis > > Antonis Christofides > http://djangodeployment.com > > > On 01/30/2017 12:33 PM, Danny Jr Chu wrote: >> Hi Antonis, >> >> No I have not yet tried wordpress, but the answer is budget wise. I would >> think that after these exercises, I am just going to pay (I think) the >> domain and hosting only. >> >> Regards, >> Danny >> >> On Monday, January 30, 2017 at 6:16:27 PM UTC+8, Antonis Christofides >> wrote: >> >>> I wish I could build a website out of my imaginary >> >> Hello, >> >> depending on what you mean with "build a website", you may be looking >> at the wrong thing. Have you tried, for example, to build a web site >> at wordpress.com <http://wordpress.com>? If yes, why is this not >> sufficient for you and you want to learn Django? >> >> Regards, >> >> Antonis >> >> Antonis Christofides >> http://djangodeployment.com >> >> >> On 01/30/2017 05:05 AM, Danny Jr Chu wrote: >>> Guys, please help. I am new with Python and Django, I mean I don't >>> have any clue what's going on (don't even know how to encode), but I >>> wish I could build a website out of my imaginary. I know this will >>> goes miles and miles... I am trying to install Django but couple of >>> errors occur : >>> >>> PS C:\Users\Luv> easy_install django >>> Searching for django >>> Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/django/ >>> <https://pypi.python.org/simple/django/> >>> Downloading >>> >>> https://pypi.python.org/packages/c3/c2/6096bf5d0caa4e3d5b985ac72e3a0c795e37fa7407d6c85460b2a105b467/Django-1 >>> >>> <https://pypi.python.org/packages/c3/c2/6096bf5d0caa4e3d5b985ac72e3a0c795e37fa7407d6c85460b2a105b467/Django-1> >>> .10.5.tar.gz#md5=3fce02f1e6461fec21f1f15ea7489924 >>> Best match: Django 1.10.5 >>> Processing Django-1.10.5.tar.gz >>> Writing >>> >>> C:\Users\Luv\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-5dcbu64l\Django-1.10.5\setup.cfg >>> Running Django-1.10.5\setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir >>> C:\Users\Luv\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-5dcbu64l\Django-1.10 >>> .5\egg-dist-tmp-k4dzxio3 >>> no previously-included directories found matching >>> 'django\contrib\admin\bin' >>> warning: no previously-included files matching '__pycache__' found >>> anywhere in distribution >>> creating c:\program files >>> (x86)\lib\site-packages\django-1.10.5-py3.6.egg >>> Extracting django-1.10.5-py3.6.egg to c:\program files >>> (x86)\lib\site-packages >>> Adding django 1.10.5 to easy-install.pth file >>> Installing django-admin.py script to c:\program files (x86)\Scripts >>> error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'c:\\program files >>> (x86)\\Scripts\\django-admin.py' >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Django users" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>> send an email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users >>> <https://groups.google.com/group/django-users>. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/86091d59-6578-4e85-9be0-d24beb1f5b84%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/86091d59-6578-4e85-9be0-d24beb1f5b84%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users >> <https://groups.google.com/group/django-users>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/6cafee05-1c3f-40cf-aeab-00f98493cf6b%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/6cafee05-1c3f-40cf-aeab-00f98493cf6b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/aa19ebd2-a9e8-4544-8318-24e1dcc74377%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/aa19ebd2-a9e8-4544-8318-24e1dcc74377%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. 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