Creating Mezzanine themes, Part 1

by pajju on 9/27/2013, 10:35 AM with 19 comments
  • by pajju on 9/27/2013, 10:41 AM

    Part 1 — Working with Base.html http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-creating-mezzanine-...

    Part 2 — The HomePage http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-2-the-homepage...

    Part 3 — Pages, extra DRY http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-3-pages-extra-...

    Part 4 — To the blog, and beyond http://bitofpixels.com/blog/mezzatheming-part-4-style-the-bl...

    Themes developed so far: http://mezzathe.me/

    Finally I love the way its going and the good patterns, its looking like the Python Wordpress. :)

    A Great initiative for the whole Python and Django ecosystem. Looks like the next Python Wordpress?

  • by stephen_mcd on 9/27/2013, 11:06 AM

    Title is really poorly worded and could use an edit - Django CMS is the other popular CMS project based on Django. Article is for Mezzanine, an entirely separate project. Really confusing!

    Edit: title has been updated :-)

  • by wslh on 9/27/2013, 1:24 PM

    It's important to highlight that theming a Django/Mezzanine site is straightforward and does not require any special skill beyond modifying templates and styles BUT if you need to change the basic Mezzanine CMS functionality you must dive into Django.

    A designer themed my own site http://www.nektra.com just customizing my Bootstrap styles and giving me templates of the main and inner pages.

  • by waterlion on 9/27/2013, 12:15 PM

    (Looks like this is Mezzanine not Django CMS.)

  • by andybak on 9/27/2013, 3:52 PM

    I've got my own unpublished, undocumented and a bit-flaky-in-places CMS that I have always intended to release 'someday'.

    So it's really interesting to look at mature projects such as this and see where their philosophy and feature-set differs from where I've ended up.

    So far I've decided that what I've got is different enough and non-awful enough to at least consider open-sourcing - it's just the task of cleaning-up, documenting and marketing my project seems rather overwhelming.

    And I have great admiration for anyone who gets past that barrier for their own projects.

  • by milkanic on 9/27/2013, 3:22 PM

    Love Mezzanine and Cartridge - very clean code and easy to modify/theme.

  • by davidcollantes on 9/27/2013, 1:57 PM

    Creating posts with a huge photo that takes 3/4 of a 27" iMac screen is a new trend? Not sure if that is part of a Mezzanine theme, but curious to hear the opinion of others.

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