Question

I am very interested in using Django for creating a small travel blog for myself. There are a few reasons why I am more interested in using Django instead of something like WordPress. One is that I am interested in having a grip on all the details and in the end creating something that doesn’t look like a wordpress blog, the second, is that I want several blogs, one for each place I visit, which isn’t natively handled by wordpress.

The problem is that when I’m abroad, I want to be able to type a blog that will automatically create paragraph tags for me at the very least and handle a lot of the small html formatting tyoe things that WordPress does for you. What is the common workflow for something like this? I don’t want something crazy like TinyMCE, but something above having to type every little html tag.

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

There are a lot of options out there. Markdown(http://code.google.com/p/python-markdown2/) is an obvious one.

But you could also look at https://github.com/syrusakbary/pyjade which provides a simplified structure. I think that Markdown is a bit more forgiving and easier to work with.