The built in Django admin application is quite useful in typing simple data into your system. But when dealing with complex html format, it just can't work.

  Then integrating with rich text editor is a good choice, but it need some extra work either in the admin itself or using the newform admin branch. After looking around into this branch, i'm not sure if it's the right time to use it right now. On the other hand, i choose the other way round to solve this problem, yup, i'm not adding the rich editor into django, but to setup a FCKeditor outside.

  Now i can insert all the things in this editor, like images, urls, flash, etc. After finishing, just click the source button to get the xhtml1.1 code and paste them into the TextField in Django admin interface. Honestly, it saves me a lot time.

  The one thing more i want to say is that, the rerason why there is no popular blog system built in Django out there yet is that everybody could start their own app in quite a short time, and find sort of UGLY ways to overcome the shortages like this. And more ugly the method is, the less people wanting to show their code to the others. So i really hope that the newform admin branch could fix these kind of problem and bring us a much powerful admin interface in the future.

Inspired by:

http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/08/13/rte-notes/