Skip to Main Content
Beginning Django E-Commerce
book

Beginning Django E-Commerce

by JIM McGaw
October 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
407 pages
13h 29m
English
Apress
Content preview from Beginning Django E-Commerce

Chapter 2. Creating a Django Site

Now that we have some idea about how our site is supposed to look and function fresh in our minds from the last chapter, we're going to get started by creating the basic skeleton for the site.

First, we're going to create the Django site and have a look at the files that Django creates for you by default, and how you're supposed to use each one to set up the site. As every dynamic web site requires a back-end datastore, we're going to create and configure the MySQL database for our project. Then, we'll learn how Django maps requests to your site to view functions, and how these serve templates back to the users of your site.

We're just going to create something very simple, but don't let this interfere with your ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Django Standalone Apps: Learn to Develop Reusable Django Libraries

Django Standalone Apps: Learn to Develop Reusable Django Libraries

Ben Lopatin
Django Project Blueprints

Django Project Blueprints

Asad Jibran Ahmed
Django 2 by Example

Django 2 by Example

Antonio Melé

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781430225355Purchase book