After completing the Django tutorial, I was a little confused as to how one is supposed to structure the homepage for a web application containing multiple applications.

There seem to be three common approaches:

• Flatpages – https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/flatpages/
• Create a separate dedicated app
• Create a new views.py in the “project” folder which contains your settings.py

Flatpages are static content pages which are saved in the database backing your Django application.  This makes creating a homepage very easy, but also – by definition – static.  This is probably most useful for things like an “About Us” page.  A homepage will surely have dynamic content (e.g. latest news).

I opted to create a views.py in my project folder for now.  If this doesn’t work, I will look at creating a “general” application that fills the gaps between the specific dedicated apps.