On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 12:08 AM, alex <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was reading the Satchmo documentation and although it's simple to
> read, I was confused on how to point to my own created page such as an
> about.html or employees.html.
>
> I've been exploring the Satchmo directories and from what I could
> understand, I'm supposed to create my own view with a request and
> templatelocation parameter. Then I have to configure my URLs to point
> to that view. However, when I did that, nothing seemed to happen. Am I
> missing a step?
>
> Many thanks for your helpful answers in advance,
> Alex
>
The 'flatpages' feature is intended for scenarios like this, but I
found it to be a bit over-complicated for what I needed. So here's
what I do...
1. Create a directory for my 'static' HTML files and add it to
TEMPLATE_DIRS in settings.py.
2. Add all my 'static' HTML files to the directory.
3. Modify each HTML file to extend 'shop/base.html' (my static pages
were created as 'vanilla' HTML pages so in this step I'm 'converting'
them to django templates so they can pick up on the site's common
look-and-feel).
4. Add entries to urls.py as desired (see below for example).
5. Create the referring anchor tag on the satchmo site and link in the new URL!
Took me about 30 minutes to link in six pages in this manner.
Here's what the entries in the urls.py look like:
(r'^about/', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template',
{'template' : 'about_us.html'}),
Hope that helps!
--Stuart
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