The document provides a guide for Drupal beginners, emphasizing the importance of having a good server environment to avoid common pitfalls. It lists essential Drupal modules such as Teleport, Admin Menu, and Backup & Migrate, describing their functionalities and benefits. The author encourages newcomers to utilize these tools for a smoother experience in managing their Drupal sites.

1. I’m a Drupal noob
Top Drupal modules
for beginners

3. Get a good Drupal
server environment

4. something like…

6. WHY>

7. ...
• 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

8. avoid
head-aches

10. fill what you NEED,
NOT what you want

11. otherwise:
get headaches

12. OUCH
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicholasro

13. Got that?

14. Great.

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

17. Teleport
drupal.org/project/teleport

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

19. Admin Menu
drupal.org/project/admin_menu

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

21. Backup & Migrate
drupal.org/project/backup_migrate

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

23. Admin
drupal.org/project/admin

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

25. Module Filter
drupal.org/project/module_filter

26. • 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

27. BUEditor
drupal.org/project/bueditor

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

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

30. • 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.

31. Simple Views
drupal.org/project/simpleviews

32. • 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.

33. visit
www.marcky.org
learn short techie stuff.

34. this is
http://twitter.com/marcrobinsone