title: Staticfiles not a registered tag and staticfiles not loading
body: <p>My staticfiles will not load no matter what and I'm at the point where I've looked through stackoverflow and read documentation for five hours so I need help. </p>
  
  <p>Here's my URL for urls.py</p>
  
  <pre><code>urlpatterns = [
  url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),
  url(r'', include('notebook.urls'))
  ]
  from django.contrib.staticfiles.urls import staticfiles_urlpatterns
  
  urlpatterns += staticfiles_urlpatterns()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Meanwhile this is my settings for my project and I'm egregiously been trying to figure out why my staticfiles have not loaded. I'm not running this in a virtualenv so those related issues  have been addressed I've looked over the Django documentation to try and find where in my setting the reason the staticfiles are not loading and I after hours of that and staackoverflow not a single answer has availed.</p>
  
  <p>This is my settings file for the project</p>
  
  <pre><code>    """
  Django settings for onesky project.
  
  Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 1.10.5.
  
  For more information on this file, see
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/settings/
  
  For the full list of settings and their values, see
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/settings/
  """
  
  import os
  
  # Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
  BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
  
  
  # Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
  # See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/deployment/checklist/
  
  # Static file directory
  TEMPLATE_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "templates")
  # Static files for multiple directories
  STATICFILES_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
  # Media file directory
  MEDIA_DIR = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "media")
  
  # Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
  # See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/deployment/checklist/
  
  # SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
  SECRET_KEY = 'q*6q$)mqhr**pwaj4m!8km&amp;2i7s2ewu+lg%7p$*pm6+8!l8cwf'
  
  # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
  DEBUG = True
  
  ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
  
  
  # Application definition
  
  INSTALLED_APPS = [
      'django.contrib.admin',
      'django.contrib.auth',
      'django.contrib.contenttypes',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles',
      'django.contrib.sessions',
      'django.contrib.messages',
      'rest_framework',
      'notebook',
  
  ]
  
  MIDDLEWARE = [
      'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
      'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
      'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
  ]
  
  ROOT_URLCONF = 'onesky.urls'
  
  TEMPLATES = [
      {
          'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
          'DIRS': [TEMPLATE_DIR],
          'APP_DIRS': True,
          'OPTIONS': {
              'context_processors': [
                  'django.template.context_processors.debug',
                  'django.template.context_processors.request',
                  'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
                  'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
                  'django.template.context_processors.media',
              ],
          },
      },
  ]
  
  WSGI_APPLICATION = 'onesky.wsgi.application'
  
  
  # Database
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/settings/#databases
  
  DATABASES = {
      'default': {
          'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
          'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
      }
  }
  
  
  # Password validation
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators
  
  AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
      },
      {
          'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
      },
  ]
  
  
  # Internationalization
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/i18n/
  
  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
  
  TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
  
  USE_I18N = True
  
  USE_L10N = True
  
  USE_TZ = True
  
  
  # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
  # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/static-files/
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  STATIC_ROOT = STATICFILES_DIR
  
  # Media Root
  MEDIA_ROOT = MEDIA_DIR
  MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Just for completeness here is also wgsi.py file</p>
  
  <pre><code>"""
  WSGI config for onesky project.
  
  It exposes the WSGI callable as a module-level variable named ``application``.
  
  For more information on this file, see
  https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/howto/deployment/wsgi/
  """
  
  import os
  
  from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application
  
  os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "onesky.settings")
  
  application = get_wsgi_application()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here's my template code</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  {% load staticfiles %}
  
      &lt;meta charset="UTF-8"&gt;
      &lt;title&gt;OneSky&lt;/title&gt;
      &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="{% load static "css/normalize.css" %}"&gt;
      &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="{% load static'css/home.css' %}"&gt;
      &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="{% load static '/css/notebook.css' %}"&gt;
      &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="{% load static 'css/skeleton.css' %}"&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  &lt;body&gt;
  &lt;div class="row" style="padding-top: 1%;"&gt;
      &lt;div class="nav"&gt;
          &lt;div class="three columns"&gt;
              &lt;div class="logo"&gt;OneSky&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;!--
             @TODO:Change to class based styling
          --&gt;
          &lt;div class="seven columns" style="height: 100%"&gt;
              &lt;div class="spacer"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div class="one column"&gt;
              &lt;img src="{% load static 'img/settings-cog.png' %}" class="icon"&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
          &lt;div class="one column"&gt;
              &lt;img src="img/account.png" class="icon"&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;div class="data-container"&gt;
  &lt;div class="row"&gt;
  
          &lt;div class="three columns" style="overflow: hidden"&gt;
              &lt;div class="scroll-container"&gt;
              &lt;div class="note-container"&gt;
              &lt;div class="row"&gt;
                  &lt;div class="eight columns"&gt;
                      &lt;h2 class="note header"&gt; Notebook &lt;/h2&gt;
                  &lt;/div&gt;
                  &lt;div class="two columns"&gt;
                      &lt;img src="img/add-button.png" class="icon"&gt;
  
                  &lt;/div&gt;
                  &lt;div class="two columns"&gt;
                      &lt;img src="img/list-button.png" class="icon"&gt;
                  &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
                  &lt;div id="content" class="hiddenscrollbars"&gt;
                  &lt;hr&gt;
                      {% for post in posts %}
  
                              &lt;div class="row"&gt;
                      &lt;div class="note-title"&gt;
                          &lt;h4&gt; {{ post.title }}&lt;/h4&gt;
                      &lt;/div&gt;
                  &lt;/div&gt;
                      {% endfor %}
  
              &lt;/div&gt;
  
                  &lt;/div&gt;
  
          &lt;/div&gt;
              &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  &lt;div class="eight columns"&gt;
      &lt;div class="row"&gt;
          &lt;h3 class="selected-note-title"&gt;Select Something&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;button class="submit" title="submit"&gt;Save&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="scrolling-container"&gt;
          &lt;div class="editor-container"&gt;
          &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;!-- Include the Quill library --&gt;
  &lt;script src="js/quill.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;!-- Initialize Quill editor --&gt;
  &lt;script src="js/notebook.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thank you in advance for assistance</p>