Welcome to Django Site of the Week

We've got a whole bunch of websites listed at DjangoSites, most of them pretty darned good. Some of them, however, are just awesome.

Each week, one of those awesome websites is hand-picked and the brains behind it quizzed so we can share 'the making of' with you, the community.

This Week: The A.V. Club

Smart Pop-Culture

The A.V. Club is the fun and smart pop-culture section of The Onion, a widely popular satirical news service. With a website originally powered by PHP content-management system Drupal, the team at The Onion have recently ported The A.V. Club to a custom-built Django solution. Why did they make the switch? How do they deal with a million unique visitors each month? This week I spoke with Tom Tobin, developer at The Onion, about their most recent project.