Django Unleashed

15.1 Introduction

When beginners ask if Django allows for the creation of static webpages—simple webpages such as an about or license page that do not need a database to be generated—many developers point these beginners toward the flatpages app. However, many beginners are left with the mistaken impression that Django’s flatpages provides a way to create webpages without a database.

In this section, we use the app to create a very basic about webpage. In doing so, we discover that the flatpages contributed app doesn’t really create static webpages but instead creates simple—flat—webpages thanks to Django’s core system.