Top Drupal modules for beginners

I’m a Drupal noob Top Drupal modules for beginners

Get a good Drupal server environment

something like…

... • If you don’t have a good web-server, you’re most likely to: – experience slow response – not able to use cool features – get frustrated at yourself or Drupal – head-aches

avoid head-aches

fill what you NEED, NOT what you want

otherwise: get headaches

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Got that?

Great.

Bird’s Eye-view Navigation Con tent • Teleport • Apture • Admin Menu • BUEditor • Admin • Simple Views • Backup & Migrate

Teleport drupal.org/project/teleport

• transport to pages ala Star-Trek – Seriously: use this if you need to jump to a path/page by just entering a keyword.

Admin Menu drupal.org/project/admin_menu

• provides a helpful admin bar – exposes organized menu-links that will surely help you click your way thru the Drupal back-end.

Backup & Migrate drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

• save and restore your database – If you did something wrong, effortlessly restore a snapshot of your database without the fuzz of stressful manual labor.

Admin drupal.org/project/admin

• satisfy your back-end navigation needs – offers an enhanced navigation gui bar • also complements Admin Menu

Module Filter drupal.org/project/module_filter

• filter modules with ease – type a keyword & the module page will show matching hits to you. – toggle list of modules (by) • enabled • disabled • required • unavailable

BUEditor drupal.org/project/bueditor

• assists in writing HTML code for your editing needs – provides configurable buttons of html tags. – wraps your text in open/end html tags automagically.

Apture drupal.org/project/apture www.apture.com

• makes embedding of multimedia objects & page-links a no-brainer. – your links pop in a beautiful floating dialog-box without reloading the page. – upload files to their AMAZON S3-powered server, not yours.

Simple Views drupal.org/project/simpleviews

• build lists of your site’s content w/o overwhelming your senses. – makes it easier to understand the complexity of Views with less information overload.

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Top Drupal modules for beginners

by Marc Robinsone Caballero on Apr 19, 2010

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