Comments on: Learning Django by Example(5): Software is hard http://kunxi.org/archives/2007/12/learning-django-by-example5-software-is-hard/ Yet another code monkey blog. Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:07:06 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: basil http://kunxi.org/archives/2007/12/learning-django-by-example5-software-is-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-37333 basil Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:42:30 +0000 http://www.kunxi.org/archives/2007/12/learning-django-by-example5-software-is-hard/#comment-37333 Well, it turns out that such a customization must be done on the Trac side, not Django. I followed the directions <a href="http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracInterfaceCustomization" rel="nofollow">here</a> and it worked out very well, with minimal CSS changes. The downside is that Trac's "site.html" is a separate file from my Django project's "base.html", so there is some duplication of effort and future maintenance issues. Unless there is some clever way to generate the site.html on the fly from Django. Hmm.. Cheers, -basil Well, it turns out that such a customization must be done on the Trac side, not Django. I followed the directions here and it worked out very well, with minimal CSS changes.

The downside is that Trac’s “site.html” is a separate file from my Django project’s “base.html”, so there is some duplication of effort and future maintenance issues. Unless there is some clever way to generate the site.html on the fly from Django. Hmm..

Cheers,
-basil

]]> By: bookstack http://kunxi.org/archives/2007/12/learning-django-by-example5-software-is-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-37255 bookstack Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:43:30 +0000 http://www.kunxi.org/archives/2007/12/learning-django-by-example5-software-is-hard/#comment-37255 To be honest, this is not my effort, it is the default Trac setting of Assembla. I love Trac, but so far has no time to play with it. Maybe when Gelman is stable enough for the prime time. :-) To be honest, this is not my effort, it is the default Trac setting of Assembla.

I love Trac, but so far has no time to play with it. Maybe when Gelman is stable enough for the prime time. :-)

]]> By: Basil http://kunxi.org/archives/2007/12/learning-django-by-example5-software-is-hard/comment-page-1/#comment-37231 Basil Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:17:51 +0000 http://www.kunxi.org/archives/2007/12/learning-django-by-example5-software-is-hard/#comment-37231 Nice job! Learning by example is not just another way to learn, it is the <strong>only</strong> way to learn.. I also started learning Django very recently to build my own web applications. I notice your Trac page for the Gelman project is embedded within the context of navigation links at the very top of the page. This is nice - it allows the user to quickly jump to a different site from Trac pages. But how did you do it? When I study the source of the Django website, I see they use the "flatfile" approach, and somehow they use their own CSS so that their Trac pages are rendered in the green-theme "Django" look. I'd like to follow that example, but do you have any idea how to go about it? -basil Nice job! Learning by example is not just another way to learn, it is the only way to learn..

I also started learning Django very recently to build my own web applications. I notice your Trac page for the Gelman project is embedded within the context of navigation links at the very top of the page. This is nice – it allows the user to quickly jump to a different site from Trac pages.

But how did you do it? When I study the source of the Django website, I see they use the “flatfile” approach, and somehow they use their own CSS so that their Trac pages are rendered in the green-theme “Django” look. I’d like to follow that example, but do you have any idea how to go about it?

-basil

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