Django Unleashed

28.1 Introduction

We are a step away from deployment. We have all our features, we’ve optimized our site for speed, and we’ve kept our code as clean as reasonably possible while learning a framework.

Before we actually deploy, however, we should add a few features to the website.

The first feature are RSS and Atom feeds. Users may subscribe to these feeds to automatically be updated anytime we write a new blog post or if a startup adds news to their page.

The second feature is a sitemap, which will allow search engines to better index our website for searching.

Django provides tools for building both of these features, making our life very, very easy. Before we dive into the actual code, I will add an RSS icon to the project in commit 1dbc13a2d3 ...