Why Django as a Web-Framework?

A web-framework is a necessity. There's no point in us writing our own form-handling code and suchlike - instead give up a small amount of control in exchange for having a burden lifted from your shoulders, and never having to write the same code over and over again.

In the case of Django [http://www.djangoproject.com/] we don't have to worry - the thing itself is written by perfectionists who know what they're doing, and Django does it all out of the box.

- Healthy, sensible and transparent development
They have public bugtrackers, mailing lists and such. And seem to know what they be talking 'boot.

- Stable 1.0 Release
It's a vanity thing, but it's good to know.

- Full-Stack Framework
Linus Torvalds is adamant that creating a monolithic kernel [vs a microkernel] was the way to take Linux. Django follows the same principle: they give you a full stack of pieces that work together out of the box to give you a functioning web site. It gives everyone a unique hymnsheet to work from, and the bits are guaranteed to work together and will develop together.

We could use a framework that allows you to choose each segment of the stack from the third-party alternatives, but then we'd enter a world where we'd be chasing the "best" example in each category, and I don't really want to spend my life recreating the system from scratch each time there's a new "better" choice.

- DRY - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DontRepeatYourself
Don't repeat yourself. Whoops, I just did. Django doesn't.

- It's jazzy.