Django Project Blueprints

Creating a better user interface

There isn't anything complicated about what we'll do here. It should be very easy for you to follow along, so I'll just give you the code to write and leave the explanation, as we have done all of this many times before in the previous chapters.

Start by creating a templates directory in the project root. Next, add it to the list of DIRS in the TEMPLATES configuration variable in our formmason/settings.py file. The settings.py file already has a TEMPLATES variable configured, so go ahead and replace the DIRS list in this dictionary with the value that you see here:

TEMPLATES = [ { 'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates', 'DIRS': [ os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'templates'), ], 'APP_DIRS': True, 'OPTIONS': ...