Today’s effort is to see if there is an open-source CMS for Django. (I know that the Django authors have Ellington, but that’s a for-pay one, and I’m trying to bootstrap a business here.)
So I find a “checkbox matrix” at http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/CMSAppsComparison, and while that’s a crappy way of picking software, and it may be out-of-date, I’ll start there and try a few.
PyLucid installs fine. But once I get it installed, I can’t figure out what to do with it. I can’t figure out how to even add a new page to the system. The authors say that “writing documentation is not as much fun as writing code”, which is true, but a very bad sign. I’ll try to post a question in their forum, as of now, I’m waiting to be approved to use the forum.
DjangoCMS installs pretty easy, and it appears that you get a really basic web page out of it (which you then use CSS to style, I suppose), but I realize that my target audience is really going to want in-place editing — I can’t confuse them with an admin interface and a public interface.
So I’ll try django-page-cms, which seems to have the most recent active development and commentary in the forum. But this is very alpha software…I have to start installing package dependencies from subversion repositories, and things are just not working. I have posted a question in their forum, will see if I get any response.