Jason Hasselkus

My new Django blog is mostly concentrating on money issues and how the normal person can save money and invest. However, that’s probably not why your reading this post, your probably more interested in what the requirements of this blog are going to be and how I built it. So to start off, I’m using the latest build of Django, which is 0.96.1 as of this writing. In addition to Django, I’m also using another framework, and it’s called blueprintcss, which is how I control my style via css.
So for this blog I wanted to keep it really simple. I wanted a chronologically ordered website. I wanted people to have to sign up in order use the commenting system. Who knows I might want to extend my user model in the future and thought this was a good way to get people involved. I would like people to be able to search the site by keyword, in addition I’d like users to select posts via tags and archived dates. At this point that’s really about it.
So here’s what I’ve got working so far and what I still need to do:

Currently Working
• Posts, with Tags and relevant entry stuff
• Lists of searchable tags in the sidebar
• User Signup: Users can signup and log on. Registration key is emailed to them for registration
• Comments: comments are captured along with a preview.

Not Working (Yet)
• User Profiles
• Keyword Search
• Archives: I would like an archive (view) for today, this week, this month and pick a day via calendar
• Tags: tags are working, but the views are not working once they are clicked on
• About page is not yet created. Most likely it will be a custom page and not a flatpage, but we’ll see
• Contact form not yet created.
• Formatting: there are still some format issues that can be ironed out as we go.

At this point I’m ready to start posting. As I continue to post I’ll need to iron out some of these kinks and maybe, just maybe at some point I’ll add some adsense or something. Currently I’m running google analytics, and that’s about the only additional application I’m running with it. So head on over to www.mycashcushion.com if your interested.