Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by pajju » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 10:35 AM UTC

Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1
bitofpixels.com

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by pajju » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 10:41 AM UTC

Part 1 — Working with Base.html http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-creating-mezzanine-...

Part 2 — The HomePage http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-2-the-homepage...

Part 3 — Pages, extra DRY http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-3-pages-extra-...

Part 4 — To the blog, and beyond http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-4-style-the-bl...

Themes developed so far: http://mezzathe.me/

Finally I love the way its going and the good patterns, its looking like the Python Wordpress. :)

A Great initiative for the whole Python and Django ecosystem. Looks like the next Python Wordpress?

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by stephen_mcd » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 11:06 AM UTC

Title is really poorly worded and could use an edit - Django CMS is the other popular CMS project based on Django. Article is for Mezzanine, an entirely separate project. Really confusing!

Edit: title has been updated :-)

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by waterlion » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 12:15 PM UTC

(Looks like this is Mezzanine not Django CMS.)

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by frabber » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 12:17 PM UTC

waterlion wrote: post #4

(Looks like this is Mezzanine not Django CMS.)

Mezzazine uses the term "django CMS" everywhere they can. I think it is to get some thunder from django CMS. Or SEO considerations.

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by stephen_mcd » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 12:24 PM UTC

frabber wrote: post #5

waterlion wrote: post #4

(Looks like this is Mezzanine not Django CMS.)

Mezzazine uses the term "django CMS" everywhere they can. I think it is to get some thunder from django CMS. Or SEO considerations.

Completely outrageous for a CMS built with Django.

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by ciupicri » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 12:29 PM UTC

frabber wrote: post #5

waterlion wrote: post #4

(Looks like this is Mezzanine not Django CMS.)

Mezzazine uses the term "django CMS" everywhere they can. I think it is to get some thunder from django CMS. Or SEO considerations.

I see "Django CMS" only in the title of the front page[1], the text itself doesn't have it.

[1]: http://mezzanine.jupo.org/

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by wslh » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 1:24 PM UTC

It's important to highlight that theming a Django/Mezzanine site is straightforward and does not require any special skill beyond modifying templates and styles BUT if you need to change the basic Mezzanine CMS functionality you must dive into Django.

A designer themed my own site http://www.nektra.com just customizing my Bootstrap styles and giving me templates of the main and inner pages.

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by davidcollantes » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 1:57 PM UTC

Creating posts with a huge photo that takes 3/4 of a 27" iMac screen is a new trend? Not sure if that is part of a Mezzanine theme, but curious to hear the opinion of others.

Re: Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

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Post by milkanic » Fri, Sep 27, 2013, 3:22 PM UTC

Love Mezzanine and Cartridge - very clean code and easy to modify/theme.