Customizing the Django Admin at EuroDjangoCon 2009
June 22, 2009 | django, presentation | 2 comments
Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at EuroDjangoCon about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the admin customizations we had done on Gondola, I had a bunch of people get in touch with me asking me to do a write-up about how it was done. After about 8 months of heel-dragging, I finally took the time to do it in presentation form.
Our talk was divided into two parts. First our User Experience Director, Michael, gave an overview of user interface design and why it is important, pulling examples from some real-world interfaces. Comparing the default Django admin to a custom built application specific interface was an intentional cheap-shot to get people to think outside-the-box when working with the admin. Our argument was that it is possible to recreate any of the example interfaces while still leveraging some of the power baked into django.contrib.admin ...
