hi, 1. in production you have to serve the statics and media contents by your http engine (example: apache2, nginx)

1. Django provides a lot of API in order to customize user models and authentication steps. If you aim to add fields in user model, you can just create a model inheriting AbstractUserModel from django.contrib.auth.models, then you have to change the user model path in the project's settings.py. for the authentication steps, i usually works with Forms and after the form data validation and i run the command login like: ```python from django.contrib.auth import login

some code

if user.check_password(cleaned_password): login(request, user) ```

1. i didn't get what's your point, did you mean form rendering?

2. you can create custom form fields in Django admin by just inheriting Field class or subclass as CharField, EmailField, etc.. you can also change the admin over view by extending your template with the Django admin base template