This summer, I’ve been converting my biggest site, Invisible Castle, from Cheetah to straight Django. At the moment, Invisible Castle is run on straight CGI, using Cheetah to render the pages, so this is a rather big conversion.
I’m not just changing the template, that part is surprisingly simple, but the whole page flow logic. From stateless to a full web app. It is interesting, going quickly and the site will be much stronger when I’m done. It already gets 20-50K hits a month, and with my changes it will be able to take a lot more hits and handle them more quickly.
What’s the point?
Ah, but what’s the point? Why bother? Well, partially I just wanted to see how easy it would be, and because I find Cheetah templates annoying to maintain. But more importantly, after conversion, I’ll be able to use Zyons forums, and integrate them into the site. Zyons is a nice, full featured forum app, written using Django. So, I’ll be able to integrate my current app into a forum. How great is that?
Just try that with some hacky PHP forum. I dare you. I am absolutely certain it will work, and work smoothly. I can hardly wait to integrate and bring this dream to life.
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