Django - Website Home Page

Question

I\'ve been having a look at Django and, from what I\'ve seen, it\'s pretty darn fantastic. I\'m a little confused, however, how I go about implementing a \"home page\" for my we

Answer 1

I just found my original approach (direct_to_template) is deprecated in Django 1.5

Instead, use a TemplateView to achieve the same result

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^$', 
        TemplateView.as_view(template_name='index.html'),
        name='index'),
)

(For Django 1.4) You can setup a direct_to_template url within ./project/project/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.views.generic.simple import direct_to_template

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    (r'^$', direct_to_template, { 'template': 'index.html'}),
    # add urls to apps here
)

For both, place the template (index.html) in your TEMPLATE_DIRS root. This is one approach to create a homepage without implementing an entire app. There are many ways to make this happen as others have noted.