Q: Building string base for Django application I am building an application in django, that is already using a lot of hardcoded strings. They are mostly in templates, but some also in js files and a few can be found inside the code. Now every time some string needs to be changed people comes to us and we have to waste our time finding it and changing. How could I start with cleaning this up and having all those strings in separate files, that could be edited by non-programmers?

A: What about using i18n services (gettext)? Even if you are not planning to localize your application, they provide an easy and standard way to separate strings from actual code.
Moreover, being PO quite a common standard, there are plenty of tools to edit the resource files; one of them (available also on Windows) is Poedit.

A: We keep all hard-coded strings in a separate module. However, since you want users to modify the strings as they like, you better keep them in the database. I think a simple model with a key (an identifier of the string) and a value (string itself) field will do. Then you can develop a simple page where user selects a string by its identifier and updates it however he wants. 
About how to use them in your apps, you can fetch all of them into a dict when your app starts (a proper place may be the init module) and use them accordingly.
