Django Unleashed

11.1 Introduction

If you were to judge Django on the basis of all the previous content, you might describe the act of building a website as an iterative process where you always

1. Build a model

2. Generate a migration

3. Build webpages by

a. Creating a template

b. Creating a view

c. Creating a URL pattern

While this is a perfectly valid approach to building a website in Django, it is certainly not your only option.

To better aid you in your quest for a holistic understanding of Django, the goal of this chapter is to build a webpage that does not follow the process above. We will build a single webpage that provides a contact form to users, allowing them to send us emails without having us share our email address directly. Along the way, we ...