All of “Django”

We launched a website an experimental performance/visual artist Julia Mandle last week. We collaborated on the identity design with the great Chad Kloepfer. This site was built on the Django framework with added lines doodles in Javascript (IE support via Silverlight & ExplorerCanvas).

I’ve been compiling this reference since I started with the Django Framework in hopes that it would prove helpful to other developer/designers. It's an exciting, but potentially confusing time to learn Django. The recent launch of Django 1.0 has produced an abundance of excitement about the project but it has also out dated a lot of reference material written for version .96. So here is what I used to get up to speed.

This is one of the first sites we've developed using the web framework Django. I think the set of tools we used to build out this site could be interesting to some readers; so I took a few minutes to list them out...