Django Unleashed

16.3 Adding Static Content for the Project

The problem with our code in the previous section is that it was limited to our apps. The /about/ page, for instance, was without any style. To change that, we can create a CSS stylesheet for the entire website.

Just as with templates, we start by creating a directory to store our site-wide templates in the top directory of our project. We can also create the site static namespace in the same command, as shown in Example 16.8.

Example 16.8: Shell Code

$ mkdir -p static/site

In Example 16.9, we add the STATICFILES_DIRS setting to our settings.py file to let Django know to look in this directory for static files.

Example 16.9: Project Code

suorganizer/settings.py in b4eeb06e86

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