Re: Hypothetical: Customizable Member Pages

2007-06-21 Thread Merric Mercer
We've taken the approach using cookies. The value of the cookies is returned to the template via a simple context processor. Each cookie then simply refers to a stylesheet, which can change the whole look and feel of the site. Very straightforward. MerMer James Bennett wrote: > On

Re: Hypothetical: Customizable Member Pages

2007-06-20 Thread Bryan Veloso
> Not really sure if it's a good idea to > allow users to enter arbitrary HTML code. I mean, just look at what > happened to MySpace and Friendster :) It's better to just allow users > to select from a set of predesigned templates and then allow them to > customize the CSS stylesheets. Believe

Re: Hypothetical: Customizable Member Pages

2007-06-20 Thread James Bennett
On 6/20/07, Bryan Veloso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This feature is a show-stopper, since the market I'll be gearing this > to almost requires features like this to be there. So am I dreaming > that this can be done? Has anybody else attempted something like this > yet? It should be

Re: Hypothetical: Customizable Member Pages

2007-06-20 Thread Nimrod A. Abing
Hello, Django does not support this out of the box. If you plan to use the built-in auth module, you can extend it by creating Profile and UserStyle model which would presumably store details about the user's profile (fields not already in the default User model) and user's custom style. Can't

Hypothetical: Customizable Member Pages

2007-06-20 Thread Bryan Veloso
I'd like to build a site in which members have the ability to customize the look of their profile using HTML, CSS and template tags that we'd provide to the member. So, I want to know if Django supports this or not, as well as how difficult it would be to implement. Best case scenario would be a