Learning Website Development with Django Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction to Django
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Building a Social Bookmarking Application
Chapter 4: User Registration and Management
Chapter 5: Introducing Tags
Chapter 6: Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax
Chapter 7: Voting and Commenting
Chapter 8: Creating an Administration Interface
Chapter 9: Advanced Browsing and Searching
Chapter 10: Building User Networks
Chapter 11: Extending and Deploying
Chapter 12: What Next?
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Introduction to Django
  • The MVC Pattern in Web Development
  • Why Python?
  • Why Django?
    • Tight Integration between Components
    • Object-Relational Mapper
    • Clean URL Design
    • Automatic Administration Interface
    • Advanced Development Environment
    • Multi-Lingual Support
  • History of Django
  • Summary

• Chapter 2: Getting Started
  • Installing the Required Software
    • Installing Python
      • Installing Python on Windows
      • Installing Python on UNIX/Linux
      • Installing Python on Mac OS X
    • Installing Django
      • Installing Django on Windows
      • Installing Django on UNIX/Linux and Mac OS X
    • Installing a Database System
  • Creating Your First Project
    • Creating an Empty Project
    • Setting up the Database
    • Launching the Development Server
  • Summary

• Chapter 3: Building a Social Bookmarking Application
  • A Word about Django Terminology
  • URLs and Views: Creating the Main Page
    • Creating the Main Page View
    • Creating the Main Page URL
  • Models: Designing an Initial Database Schema
    • The Link Data Model
    • The User Data Model
    • The Bookmark Data Model
  • Templates: Creating a Template for the Main Page
  • Putting It All Together: Generating User Pages
    • Creating the URL
    • Writing the View
    • Designing the Template
    • Populating the Model with Data
  • Summary

• Chapter 4: User Registration and Management
  • Session Authentication
    • Creating the Login Page
    • Enabling Logout Functionality
  • Improving Template Structure
  • User Registration
    • Django Forms
    • Designing the User Registration Form
  • Account Management
  • Summary

• Chapter 5: Introducing Tags
  • The Tag Data Model
  • Creating the Bookmark Submission Form
    • Restricting Access to Logged-in Users
    • Methods for Browsing Bookmarks
    • Improving the User Page
    • Creating a Tag Page
    • Building a Tag Cloud
  • A Word on Security
    • SQL Injection
    • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
  • Summary

• Chapter 6: Enhancing the User Interface with Ajax
  • Ajax and Its Advantages
  • Using an Ajax Framework in Django
    • Downloading and Installing jQuery
  • The jQuery JavaScript Framework
    • Element Selectors
    • jQuery Methods
      • Hiding and Showing Elements
      • Accessing CSS Properties and HTML Attributes
      • Manipulating HTML Documents
      • Traversing the Document Tree
      • Handling Events
      • Sending Ajax Requests
      • What Next?
  • Implementing Live Searching of Bookmarks
    • Implementing Searching
    • Implementing Live Searching
  • Editing Bookmarks in Place
    • Implementing Bookmark Editing
    • Implementing In-Place Editing of Bookmarks
  • Auto-Completion of Tags
  • Summary

• Chapter 7: Voting and Commenting
  • Sharing Bookmarks on the Main Page
    • The SharedBookmark Data Model
    • Modifying the Bookmark Submission Form
    • Browsing and Voting for Shared Bookmarks
    • The Popular Bookmarks Page
  • Commenting on Bookmarks
    • Enabling the Comments Application
    • Creating a View for Comments
    • Displaying Comments and a Comment Form
    • Creating Comment Templates
  • Summary

• Chapter 8: Creating an Administration Interface
  • Activating the Administration Interface
  • Customizing the Administration Interface
    • Customizing Listing Pages
    • Overriding Administration Templates
  • Users, Groups and Permissions
    • User Permissions
    • Group Permissions
    • Using Permissions in Views
  • Summary

• Chapter 9: Advanced Browsing and Searching
  • Adding RSS Feeds
    • Creating the Recent Bookmarks Feed
      • Customizing Item Fields
    • Creating the User Bookmarks Feed
    • Linking Feeds to HTML Pages
  • Advanced Searching
    • Retrieving Objects with the Database API
    • Advanced Queries with Q Objects
    • Improving the Search Feature
  • Organizing Content into Pages (Pagination)
  • Summary

• Chapter 10: Building User Networks
  • Building Friend Networks
    • Creating the Friendship Data Model
    • Writing Views to Manage Friends
      • The Friends List View
      • Creating the "Add Friend" View
  • Inviting Friends Via Email
    • The Invitation Data Model
    • The "Invite a Friend" Form and View
    • Handling Activation Links
  • Improving the Interface with Messages
  • Summary

• Chapter 11: Extending and Deploying
  • Internationalization (i18n)
    • Marking Strings as Translatable
    • Creating Translation Files
    • Enabling and Configuring the i18n System
  • Improving Performance with Caching
    • Enabling Caching
      • Simple Caching
      • Database Caching
      • File System Caching
      • Memcached
    • Configuring Caching
      • Caching the Whole Site
      • Caching Specific Views
  • Unit Testing
    • The Test Client
    • Testing the Registration View
    • Testing the "Save Bookmark" View
  • Deploying Django
    • The Production Web Server
    • The Production Database
    • Turning Off Debug Mode
    • Changing Configuration Variables
    • Setting Error Pages
  • Summary

• Chapter 12: What Next?
  • Custom Template Tags and Filters
  • Model Managers and Custom SQL
  • Generic Views
  • Contributed Sub-Frameworks
    • Flatpages
    • Sites
    • Markup Filters
    • Humanize
    • Sitemaps
    • Cross-site Request Forgery Protection
  • Message System
  • Subscription System
  • User Scores
  • Summary

• Index

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