BristowEnews ~ Part of the growing Django Community

 

BristowEnews.com has been officially listed and a part of the growing Django Web Framework web sites across the United States. There are currently 1,038 Django registered sites since the inception of Django ~ Web Development Tool developed by a journalist several years ago and the numbers have steadily increased at the software slowly matured and accepted by web developers. Django is an open source web development tool kit which in plain layman’s term is “Open Source” and can be modified to meet your specific needs. This is the tool for creating content management applications such as Word Press, Mambo, Joomla, etc. The current version is 0.97 and requires Python, a web programming language to fully appreciate the web application. This web framework is highly customizable, scalable, and easily plug-in database models and tables to any Django project.

A number of local organizations sites such as loudountimes.com, a Washington Post company and other well know organizations such as PBS TeacherLine have decided to use Django as their tool for web development. Django is not limited to the media publishing world, but can create community websites, hospitals, personal blogs, online shopping web sites, realtor web sites, parish churches, other non-profit organization, and other e-commerce web sites.

BristowEnews.com developed this web site over a period three months from initial layout and design to full implementation integration. There were a lot of “gotchas” and lessons learned along in the development of the web site. We look forward in enhancing this web site by adding Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sFIR) , community profiles, integrating a calendaring system, and foreign language translation. The total cost and ownership is measurable and attainable. Unlike other programming languages such Java, Java Struts, and other proprietary web development tools, Django is not going to burn your web development budget and can easily integrate with other legacy database within a reasonable amount of time. To date, BristowEnews.com has achieved close to 1/2 million hits over the span of 7.5 months. The average hits per week are between 10,000 – 21,000 hits depending on the time of month.

Date Published: 2008-02-13 06:15:00

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