Sorry to hear you&#x27;ve had trouble in the past! Things have definitely gotten easier&#x2F;clearer in terms of docs, defaults, and setup guides from 5 years ago.  Especially considering Django recently turned 10 years old, your experience is fairly out of date. I&#x27;d encourage you to give modern Django (v1.8+) a try.<p>Also one thing I&#x27;d like to point out, that is a frequent source of confusion, is that Django isn&#x27;t a CMS.  It&#x27;s a general purpose web framework, akin to Rails or Express.  It just happens to have come from CMS roots and is particularly adept at &quot;content&quot; type systems.<p>Disclaimer: I&#x27;m pretty biased about Django :)