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(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.
In fact, because of its name I was always under the impression that Django-CMS is the CMS project officially endorsed by the Django BDFLs.
So it's really interesting to look at mature projects such as this and see where their philosophy and feature-set differs from where I've ended up.
So far I've decided that what I've got is different enough and non-awful enough to at least consider open-sourcing - it's just the task of cleaning-up, documenting and marketing my project seems rather overwhelming.
And I have great admiration for anyone who gets past that barrier for their own projects.
Love Mezzanine and Cartridge - very clean code and easy to modify/theme.
Modifying Cartridge to work with my payment provider was pretty straightforward, and creating a few custom Page types was super easy as well!
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.
In the blog posts this discussion is about, I did go into some detail about creating custom content types but none of that is necessary to theme vanilla Mezzanine.
edit: grammar
I've got my own unpublished, undocumented and a bit-flaky-in-places CMS that I have always intended to release 'someday'. So it's really interesting to look at mature projects such as this and see where their philosophy and feature-set differs from where I've ended up. So far I've decided that what I've got is different enough and non-awful enough to at least consider open-sourcing - it's just the task of cleaning-up…
With Mezzanine I think the community that has developed around it's google group has been key.
What's your CMS written in?
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.
Do you find it aggravating, appealing or are you ambivalent?
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/ Finall…
I've got my own unpublished, undocumented and a bit-flaky-in-places CMS that I have always intended to release 'someday'. So it's really interesting to look at mature projects such as this and see where their philosophy and feature-set differs from where I've ended up. So far I've decided that what I've got is different enough and non-awful enough to at least consider open-sourcing - it's just the task of cleaning-up…
I'd say just go for it, maybe make a basic tutorial that would explain to people how to use it then open source it. With Mezzanine I think the community that has developed around it's google group has been key. What's your CMS written in?
In similar in some ways to FeinCMS in philosophy and I borrowed a small amount of code from Fein. It's not quite as cleverly coded but actually simpler in some respects (in a good way).
And there are
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I'd say just go for it, maybe make a basic tutorial that would explain to people how to use it then open source it. With Mezzanine I think the community that has developed around it's google group has been key. What's your CMS written in?
It's Django. There wasn't much around when I started it (I think there was only Django CMS). In similar in some ways to FeinCMS in philosophy and I borrowed a small amount of code from Fein. It's not quite as cleverly coded but actually simpler in some respects (in a good way). And there are