A pre-configured Django 1.1 project that can be used as a starting point. The following changes were made:

• Import settings_local.py in settings.py
• Sqlite3 database saved in project directory
• Static media in "media/" served by static.serve
• TEMPLATE_DIRS set to "templates/" directory
• E-mail settings configured for Python DebuggingServer
• GZipMiddleware installed
• example base.html template with basic HTML4.01 skeleton
• example 404.html/500.html error page templates
• custom error 500 handler with MEDIA_URL in context
• contrib.admin installed
• initial_data.json fixture with superuser
  • User: admin
  • Password: admin
• django-debug-toolbar configured (run pip install django-debug-toolbar)
• change ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to "/media/admin/"
• CACHE_BACKEND set to locmem

If you want to rename the project, remember to change the ROOT_URLCONF variable in settings.py to the new project name.