Hi there.

This was originally written to serve http://mihi.lo-res.org/, but is now generalized to make it easier to create personalized memorial sites, which allow online communities to come together and celebrate a lost one.

If you're in a position in which you need this, first of all: I'm sorry. This sucks. Thanks for doing this anyway.

online condolence book

Features:

• relatively painless image upload with dropzone.js
• account-less content submissions and image upload, via django sessions
• approval process: all content on the site needs to be approved by admins
• video and link submissions
• main page is cached by default
• optional "message to the family" field, which will not be published

TODO:

• print stylesheet
• generalize for other people to use (change to example content)
• import bake-to-static code from other repo

NICE TO HAVE:

• prettier slider, maybe multiple images side-by-side (move away from bootstrap carousel for this)

MODERATION

Create Superuser

    python manage.py createsuperuser

Visit

    /admin/submissions/submission/?accepted=sent_not_accepted

Detail pages have an "accept" button, if not acceptable then delete

ASSETS

The canonical forms of assets are stored in the static directory to enable less->css compilation and js minification. The compiled versions are checked in, but if you need to customize things, you'll need the webpack program. It needs to be installed using NPM (which has its own dependencies. This was in the app template originally used for this, so: sorry).

Install all this by navigating to the project root directory and running

npm install

To recompile assets, make sure you've created the static/src/images/person.png file exists (you can just touch it for testing purposes) and run

npm run-script build

For asset development, run

npm run-script watch

Read more in the static/STATIC_README.md file.

RUNNING

Make sure you have all requirements for the python pillow library installed.

pip install -r requirements.txt
./manage.py collectstatic --noinput
./manage.py migrate
./manage.py runserver

PERSONALIZING

Navigate to the /admin URL in your installation and create an instance of Site to customize the page title used for browser tabs.

Copy mysite/templates/_person_header.html and mysite/templates/_footer.html to the templates folder and customize them there.

Change static/src/less/custom.less and static/src/images/background.pngto suit your needs (see ASSETS above for details).

Add an image to static/src/images/person.png (for example).

DEPLOYING

Django deployment guides exist. Make sure to create a local_settings.py (possibly by copying settings.py), configuring a proper™ database™ and setting a new SECRET_KEY.

Let me know if you need help.