Sorry to hear you've had trouble in the past! Things have definitely gotten easier/clearer in terms of docs, defaults, and setup guides from 5 years ago. Espec

Sorry to hear you've had trouble in the past! Things have definitely gotten easier/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 Especially considering Django recently turned 10 years old, your experience is fairly out of date.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'd encourage you to give modern Django (v1.8+) a try. Also one thing I'd like to point out, that is a frequent source of confusion, is that Django isn't a CMS. It'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 "content" type systems. Disclaimer: I'm pretty biased about Django :)