Chapter 5. The Django Admin Site
For most modern websites, an admin interface is an essential part of the infrastructure. This is a web-based interface, limited to trusted site administrators, that enables the adding, editing and deletion of site content. Some common examples: the interface you use to post to your blog, the backend site managers use to moderate user-generated comments, the tool your clients use to update the press releases on the website you built for them.
There's a problem with admin interfaces, though: it's boring to build them. web development is fun when you're developing public-facing functionality, but building admin interfaces is always the same. You have to authenticate users, display and handle forms, validate input, ...
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