A Few Struggles
Posted on June 22, 2010I have made some good progress on the blog in the last few days. Part of the point of doing this exerciser (as in building this blog engine) is to learn to use Django better for my projects with See Namibia. I am still a beginner, and enjoying learning.
But I always find that as one gets well into a project of this sort, towards then end one finds these challenges that just seem far more tricky than any of the early stuff seemed. I have really been getting to that stage with this blog. I think some it has to do with a bit of flu we've had over the last few days as well.
Anyway, so there are still a few things that I would love to get right before I leave the back end alone for a while. Most of those are small things, but important.
I have made some nice progress with a few things. I made the little email icon today, which looks good (to me, anyway.)
Aside from that, I have also cleaned up a few things in the templates and in the code in general. What is nice about not getting everything right away, is that you end up reading your code so many times that you fix and clean up more than one normally would. It makes the finished product really nice.
So far I am well pleased with how the whole thing has turned out, and I am thinking of writing a little Django blog engine tutorial when I have some time.
