Django shines when it comes to developing "content-oriented" web sites....

If you think about it, most of the really popular and big sites online are "content-oriented": YouTube, Wikipedia, Ebay, Amazon, Craigslist... it's pretty obvious to me that well organized content drives traffic. Django's main goal is to make organizing that content as painless as possible.

I'm also extremely proud of how well Django makes the transition from development to deployment. We've always kept performance and scalability at the top of our list of goals, and I think we've made out very well. There's nothing worse than developing a site only to discover that the tool you chose makes deployment or scaling impossible.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss (one of the lead developers of Django) interview