clevercss in django

Lucumr Cogitations » Using CleverCSS in Django

Armin lays out a simple way to use CleverCSS (a language halfway between CSS and python that generates CSS files) with Django. Ostensibly this is just for development since it boils down to serving CSS through Django, something that we might avoid for performance reasons, but I think it could also be used with CleverCSS markup in the database giving some end users a more powerful way to affect the site’s design.

Working at this level with a website of course isn’t something everyone wants to do, but there are certainly some good cases. Dave and I ran into this need building areachicago.org (the designer would like to flexibly alter CSS through the admin system to “theme” the site for future issues), and ended up scratching our solution because it was too complex.