Django App for photographers

A Django app that has integrates a configured FeinCMS content management system, a blog (ElephantBlog), and provides a clean way to get a portfolio website and blog up and running very quickly with Heroku and Amazon S3.

The app is designed to be used standalone with minimal programming knowledge in that you can download it, push it to Heroku, and have a functional site in minutes complete with placeholder pages ready for your content (mainly images for portfolio pages).

The app can also be used as part of a custom app if you want to add more features and apps to the base.

Dependencies

If you install with Heroku, dependencies will be taken care of for you, otherwise you can see requirements.txt for a full list of dependencies.

Installation

• Read INSTALL.md for specific installation instructions.
• Heroku documentation for general detail on Heroku.

Themes

The App is initially supplied with a default theme "plain". The theme assets are places in the photographer/static/<themename>/ folder. The .sass files used to develop the default theme styles are in the themes folder in the root of the project.

Compass was used to develop the default theme css. I recommend installing it, creating a new theme based on the default, and checking out the files in themes/plain/sass-src/ for details on how it is put together and how Compass and Sass will make your life easier developing a unique look for your site.

• _base.sass contains the basics like site width, colors, and so forth.
• screen.css is the primary theme file styling all the elements.
• forms.sass handles the form styles.

The default theme makes use of:

Icons

Icons (currently only the home icon in the admin) are from the Iconic set: http://somerandomdude.com/work/iconic/

The following jQuery libraries

• jQuery Horizontal Scroller: http://manos.malihu.gr/jquery-custom-content-scroller/
• jQuery Cycle Lite Plugin: http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/lite/

There is a templates folder within the theme folder. This templates folder is the first place searched for templates when the template machinery is compiling the pages. What this means in practice is you can override any template by placing it in that folder inside your theme. As an example there is a _head.html file in the default plain theme folder.

License

Copyright (c) 2012, Richard Bolt and individual contributors.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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* The names of individual contributors may not be used to endorse or promote
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