Django Unleashed

7.1 Introduction

First coined by Darcy DiNucci in 1999 and popularized in the mid-2000s by others, the (marketing) term Web 2.0 has largely referred to websites that allow for user input and interaction. At the moment, our website only displays data and is therefore distinctly Web 1.0. For the next three chapters, we focus on fixing this shortcoming.

Much in the same way that Chapter 3: Programming Django Models and Creating a SQLite Database, Chapter 4: Rapidly Producing Flexible HTML with Django Templates, and Chapter 5: Creating Webpages with Controllers in Django are linked, the next three chapters are heavily interconnected.

When dealing with data, developers usually consider how data is created, read, updated, and deleted, or CRUD. At ...