Today, I created a simple news module Django app. I ended up styling it myself with custom CSS (if I'm overusing border-radius and box-shadow, send your comments to /dev/null :P).
It's fairly simple--I just have a date, tagline, and content. I don't use pagination or AJAX-load or anything fancy. I'll probably end up adding pagination when I actually write enough for it to be a concern.
Writing it and deploy it was fairly simple. I think it took me about an hour from the time I sat down to design my URLs to the time I started writing this post. Most of the work, really, is in re-learning the APIs and figuring out how to do little things here and there. As usual.
Next up: a "contact me" with a captcha. I don't believe in publishing email addresses on the web.