First Impressions of Mezzanine

Tags: programming webdesign

If you personally know me, you probably know that Kate and I moved to Lancaster, PA this past summer. We’ve got a lot of renovation and exploration ahead of us, and that means we need some new web infrastructure. For the impatient or non-technical among us, our new site is called Bates and Metzger as a tip of the hat to the original two families that owned our place.

I run this blog with Hyde. It’s great, and I get a static HTML site out of it with each commit to my repository, but I wanted something with a friendly web interface to encourage Kate’s participation in writing posts.

I knew I wanted something written in Python. After checking out many of the available options, it looked like something based on Django would be the way to go, and Mezzanine looked both nice and active.

Installation was easy, the admin interface is friendly, and customization has been surprisingly quick. It definitely assumes that site admins and developers will have Django experience, but I’m faking that part well enough.