Django static page?

Question

I want to make a static page which will be shown to the user only if he/she clicks on a link provided in one of my models. I can do this by making a Python page alone and calling it, but I want it be called from Django. The user interface should constructed using the Django API only.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Do you mean something like Django's flatpages app? It does exactly what you describe.

Answer 2

If you want to make a static page the flatpages is a good choice. It allows you to easily create static content. Creating static content is not harder than creating a view really.

Answer 3

Bypassing views to render a static template, add this line in "urls.py". For example "About Us" page could be

(r'^about', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template', {'template': 'path/to/about_us.html'}),