de-emphasize the importance of the autotools

The version string in the help documentation wasn't really working
anyway. There was just a lot of machinery for very little gain, i.e. the
replacement of the version string.
Remove support for `make dist`

as it was never finished anyway
The web page has been moved to github pages
django.contrib.markup is removed in django 1.6

Replace it with a simple template tag that converts the restructured
text to html
django.conf.urls.defaults now live in django.conf.urls

see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/1.4/#django-conf-urls-defaults
Updated default project layout and manage.py

see
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/releases/1.4/#updated-default-project-layout-and-manage-py
Fix stale links in the documentation
Fix the path to external tools
Add a version string to the footer