customization

I have been playing for a couple of days with Django Admin to explore it, but I am still clueless of how it can be customized in the way we need. Every time I look for any help for the customization in the admin panel, what I find is, a bunch of articles on various communities and forums, explaining how to customize the template, the lists items, the the column views etc. But that should not be called Django Customization. If I need to make even a small change in the User functionality or any modification to the auth module. It takes a lots of efforts even in figuring out how that can be done.

--- SOLVED THE PROBLEMS - ADDED THE ANSWERS IN EDIT TEXT --- I'm using the ActionBar Sherlock in my Android App. There I want to show a SearchView . It works fine so far but I realize, I'm doing something wrong when trying to customize it. I create it this way: searchView.setQueryHint("Search: "); searchView.setOnQueryTextListener(this); searchView.setOnCloseListener(...); searchMenuItem = menu.add("Search place"); searchMenuItem.setIcon(R.drawable.ic_action_search) .setActionView(searchView) .setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_IF_ROOM | MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_COLLAPSE_ACTION_VIEW); I

I want to customize the height and width of the JTextField objects. I have tried with the setSize method, passing width and height as dimensions and as int as well. But none of them seems to work. Am I missing something, like some mandatory method call on the panel or something so that the size customization would be effective? Please help. Thanks in advance. EDIT: Here is a bit of the code: public class WestPanel extends JPanel{ private JLabel dateL; private JTextField date; public WestPanel(){ setBackground(Color.white); setLayout(new GridLayout(1,2,0,0)); dateL=new JLabel("Date: "); date