Mention SITE_NAME in README, better docs for the unique API field.

README.md

@@ -67,6 +67,26 @@ The site should now be running at `http://localhost:8080`
 To log into Django administration site as a super user,
 visit `http://localhost:8080/admin`
 
+## Configuration
+
+Site configuration is kept in `hc/settings.py`. Additional configuration
+is loaded from `hc/local_settings.py` file, if it exists. You
+can create this file (should be right next to `settings.py` in the filesystem)
+and override settings as needed.
+
+Some useful settings keys to override are:
+
+`SITE_ROOT` is used to build fully qualified URLs for pings, and for use in
+emails and notifications. Example:
+
+    SITE_ROOT = "https://my-monitoring-project.com"`
+
+`SITE_NAME` has the default value of "healthchecks.io" and is used throughout
+the templates. Replace it with your own name to personalize your installation.
+Example:
+
+    SITE_NAME = "My Monitoring Project"
+
 ## Database Configuration
 
 Database configuration is stored in `hc/settings.py` and can be overriden
@@ -112,7 +132,6 @@ configuration from environment variables like so:
     }
 
 
-
 ## Sending Emails
 
 healthchecks must be able to send email messages, so it can send out login
@@ -125,6 +144,7 @@ scenes. For example, the healthchecks.io site uses
 [django-ses-backend](https://github.com/piotrbulinski/django-ses-backend/)
 and the email configuration in `hc/local_settings.py` looks as follows:
 
+    DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL = 'noreply@my-monitoring-project.com'
     DJMAIL_REAL_BACKEND = 'django_ses_backend.SESBackend'
     AWS_SES_ACCESS_KEY_ID = "put-access-key-here"
     AWS_SES_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = "put-secret-access-key-here"
@@ -180,11 +200,11 @@ There are separate Django management commands for each task:
 
     ```
     $ ./manage.py pruneusers
-    ```    
+    ```
 
-When you first try these commands on your data, it is a good idea to 
+When you first try these commands on your data, it is a good idea to
-test them on a copy of your database, not on the live database right away. 
+test them on a copy of your database, not on the live database right away.
-In a production setup, you should also have regular, automated database 
+In a production setup, you should also have regular, automated database
 backups set up.
 
 ## Integrations

hc/settings.py

@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ TEST_RUNNER = 'hc.api.tests.CustomRunner'
 DATABASES = {
     'default': {
         'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
-        'NAME':   './hc.sqlite',
+        'NAME': './hc.sqlite',
     }
 }
 
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ DATABASES = {
 if os.environ.get("DB") == "postgres":
     DATABASES = {
         'default': {
-            'ENGINE':   'django.db.backends.postgresql',
+            'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.postgresql',
-            'NAME':     'hc',
+            'USER': 'postgres',
-            'USER':     'postgres',
+            'NAME': 'hc',
             'TEST': {'CHARSET': 'UTF8'}
         }
     }
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ if os.environ.get("DB") == "mysql":
     DATABASES = {
         'default': {
             'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
-            'USER':     'root',
+            'USER': 'root',
-            'NAME':     'hc',
+            'NAME': 'hc',
             'TEST': {'CHARSET': 'UTF8'}
         }
     }

static/css/docs.css

@@ -50,4 +50,12 @@ a.section {
 
 a.section:hover  {
     text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+.page-docs code {
+    padding: 2px 4px;
+    font-size: 90%;
+    color: #427d5e;
+    background-color: #f2f9f6;
+    border-radius: 4px;
 }

templates/front/docs_api.html

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ its value should be your API key.
 
 <p>
 For POST requests, the {% site_name %} API expects request body to be
-a JSON document (<em>not</em> a <code>mulitpart/form-data</code> encoded
+a JSON document (<em>not</em> a <code>multipart/form-data</code> encoded
 form data).
 </p>
 
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ The response may contain a JSON document with additional data.
         <td>
             <p>string, optional, default value: ""</p>
             <p>A space-delimited list of tags for the new check.</p>
+            <p>Example:</p>
+            <pre>{"tags": "reports staging"}</pre>
         </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
@@ -107,6 +109,8 @@ The response may contain a JSON document with additional data.
             <p>number, optional, default value: {{ default_timeout }}.</p>
             <p>A number of seconds, the expected period of this check.</p>
             <p>Minimum: 60 (one minute), maximum: 604800 (one week).</p>
+            <p>Example for 5 minute timeout:</p>
+            <pre>{"timeout": 300}</pre>
         </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
@@ -130,15 +134,38 @@ The response may contain a JSON document with additional data.
     <tr>
         <th>unique</th>
         <td>
-            <p>array of strings, optional, default value: [].</p>
+            <p>array of string values, optional, default value: [].</p>
-            <p>Tells the API to only create a new check if the combination of fields
+            <p>Before creating a check, look for existing checks, filtered
-                in <code>unqiue</code> is unique. The fields currently supported are
+            by fields listed in <code>unique</code>. If a matching check is
-                name, tags, timeout, and grace. If a new check is created the API returns
+            found, return it with HTTP status code 200. If no matching check is
-            a 201 code, otherwise it returns a 200 code.</p>
+            found, proceed as normal: create a check and return it
+            with HTTP status code 201.</p>
+
+            <p>The accepted values are: <code>name</code>,
+            <code>tags</code>, <code>timeout</code> and <code>grace</code>.</p>
+
+            <p>Example:</p>
+            <pre>{"name": "Backups", unique: ["name"]}</pre>
+            <p>In this example, if a check named "Backups" exists, it will
+            be returned. Otherwise, a new check will be created and
+            returned.</p>
         </td>
     </tr>
 </table>
 
+<h3 class="api-section">Response Codes</h3>
+<table class="table">
+    <tr>
+        <th>201 Created</th>
+        <td>Returned if the check was successfully created.</td>
+    </tr>
+    <tr>
+        <th>200 OK</th>
+        <td>Returned if the <code>unique</code> parameter was used and an
+        existing check was matched.</td>
+    </tr>
+</table>
+
 <h3 class="api-section">Example Request</h3>
 {% include "front/snippets/create_check_request.html" %}