5 Blog Entries tagged: web
One of our Django sites finally went public
I'm excited to finally be able to announce a Django project we've worked on at ORCAS that was recently released to the general public.
The website's official title is Brain Injury Partners: Navigating the School System and is designed to give parents of school-aged children with a brain injury the skills they need to become successful advocates. It was funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and made in collaboration with the Brain Injury Association of America.
This was our very first dip into Django that we started in August 2006. Since then ...
Google Charts API adds maps
The Google Charts API is growing and just added maps. To play I mapped all the US states that I've either lived in, visited, or driven through. Here's my map:
3 tips for web designers using Django
In working with a good friend and web designer recently I came up with a few tips for web designers when working with Django -- things that might not be immediately apparent when reading the docs.
Keep it simple, read the documentation
There are often times when you have a goal for the user interface and you tend to over engineer how you go about implementing it. For the most part, Django makes things very straight forward. You'd be amazed at how many things can be accomplished with generic views and the template tags/filters. So if you've hit ...
Django Templates and YUI Grids
Recently I was playing around with YUI grids to make a 2 column layout. The grid builder is awesome to quickly set up a site skeleton. I was wanting a site that had a full width layout for some pages and a side column for some other pages that had extra meta data about the main content area. I saw that YUI grids was able to do this by simply changing a class name on the major DIV element.
So what I did was set the default wide width in my base template like so:
<div id="doc2" class="yui-t ...Reducing HTTP requests using make
After reading the article, High Performance Web Sites: Rule 1 - Make Fewer HTTP Requests, I experimented with concatenating 10 Javascript files into 1 to see what performance gain that would provide.
At work we're using YUI which separates their .js files into modularized chunks so you use what you need. I took a cue from mootool's download page and from the above article and thought that I could save some page load time and HTTP requests by concatenating the .js files into one big "all.js" file in the same order that I was already loading them in ...