Re: Convert Joomla Template to Django Template

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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 the
code in to your editor and start working.

On Jan 16, 1:48 pm, matt6486  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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Convert Joomla Template to Django Template

[matt6486]

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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