Build a Django content management system, blog, and social networking site with James Bennett as he introduces the popular Django framework. Youll work through the development of each project, implementing and running the applications while learning new features along the way. Web frameworks are playing a major role in the creation of todays most compelling web applications, because they automate many of the tedious tasks, allowing developers to instead focus on providing users with creative and powerful features. Python developers have been particularly fortunate in this area, having been able to take advantage of Django, a very popular open source web framework whose stated goal is to make it easier to build better web applications more quickly with less code. Practical Django Projects is the first book to introduce this popular framework by way of a series of realworld projects. What youll learn Capitalize upon Djangos welldefined framework architecture to build web applications faster than ever before Learn by doing by working through the creation of three realworld projects, including a content management system, blog, and social networking site Build userfriendly web sites with wellstructured URLs, session tracking, and syndication options Let Django handle tedious tasks such as database interaction while you focus on building compelling applications Who this book is for Web developers seeking to use the powerful Django framework to build powerful web sites.