When and why to use the admin interface-and when not to
After having worked through this chapter, you should have a good idea of how to use Django's admin site. But I want to make a point of covering when and why you might want to use it-and when not to use it.
Django's admin site especially shines when nontechnical users need to be able to enter data; that's the purpose behind the feature, after all. At the newspaper where Django was first developed, development of a typical online feature-say, a special report on water quality in the municipal supply-would go something like this:
The reporter responsible for the project meets with one of the developers and describes the available data.
The developer designs Django models to fit this data and then opens up the admin site to the reporter.
The reporter inspects the admin site to point out any missing or extraneous fields-better now than later. The developer changes the models iteratively.
When the models are agreed upon, the reporter begins entering...
