Derek,
Not quite. I don't heaps at all. An About Page, a FAQ page, a Help page ...
that's about it. It still sucks to high heaven to try and edit these HTML
pages nicely in an external app, and then have to paste the HTML into a
Django Admin box where the flatpage is stored. Surely, I
Bernd
Data-driven sites, such as the ones that Django is very good at developing
may have one or two "about" type pages but they do not typically do have "a
pile" of other flat pages. Such websites are usually not developed in
Django but rather in a CMS-type application.
Unfortunately,
Derek,
Empirically by evidence of the lack of material on-line or obvious
solutions, you may be right. But I respectfully disagree. Almost every
website has an About Us page for example and a pile of other simple flat
pages.
And Django supports flatpages natively, just not with a well
"Surely it's a ubiquitous need"
No, I think not. In the dim and distant past I used to write copious help
files for various Windows apps ... but on the web? No one really reads
manuals or help files any more - your app needs to be simple and obvious to
use.
If you are that noble as to
Hi Bernd
I don't know if you can find something
here
https://www.quora.com/Django-web-framework-What-is-the-point-of-using-flatpages,
just maybe you read something you looking for.
Blessings
Christo
On Tuesday, February 19, 2019 at 7:26:57 AM UTC+2, Bernd Wechner wrote:
>
> I'm at the point
Can you offer a link to HuGo?
Not entirely off-topic. I'm fishing for what people do here. Surely it's a
ubiquitous need. But I wrote one flatpage following a Django tutorial but
it's a nightmare to maintain as it's just a blockof HTML in a fiueld in the
admi interface, aaargh, there must be
Sorry to go off topic but I can recommend HuGo for simple markdown web
pages.
Cheers
Roger
On 22/2/19 5:24 pm, Bernd Wechner wrote:
Hmmm, no-one has any thoughts here ... and I'm on ma' own reinventing
the wheel? Surely tehre's a canonical way to provide help on Django
website . I'm leaning
Hmmm, no-one has any thoughts here ... and I'm on ma' own reinventing the
wheel? Surely tehre's a canonical way to provide help on Django website .
I'm leaning toward simple flatpages app with a tinymce editor for them for
the admin.
On Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:26:57 UTC+11, Bernd Wechner
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