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Get a good Drupal
server environment
something like…
WHY>
...
• 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
OUCH



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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