When you finally finished setting up your Drupal Installation and ready to begin implementing some functionality and features that you’ll want to use, remember these several modules as basics to implement along with the modules you’ll add. These modules will contribute to the extension of flexibility and functionality of your Drupal site and its content.
Administration Menu
The administration menu provides better manipulation and access to the administrative and configuration settings, rather than using the traditional Drupal administration page. This module will put at the top of the site template a black menu bar, which will provide a drop-down menu of all the administration options. Also gives you the option to move the edit tab buttons into the administration bar, which helps centralize all the edit buttons at the top in one region. http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu
CCK (Content Construction Kit)
The CCK module expands the capabilities and customization for creating custom fields and content types. This provides a web interface that will help you create custom fields and content types easily without having to go through the effort of coding them out. http://drupal.org/project/cck
Clone
The clone module will let you make a copy of existing content on your site. It will provide you with an exact copy of the content with an exception of the author and title (it will insert “clone of” in the clone copy). Convenient for duplicating content that have some of the basic information or needs for the new content. http://drupal.org/project/node_clone
Views
The views module provides a flexible way of controlling the content on your site. This helps gather, filter and manipulate similar content. It helps with querying the vast amount of content on your site and creates data that you need about the content you’ve created or acquired (such as the WebForms data). http://drupal.org/project/views
WebForms
WebForms module provides a quick and easy implementation to create a form on your site. The module provides many basic form essential fields: text, text-area, select, etc. and other submission features. The Webform becomes a content type, so it will also be easy to query the data collected from the forms you make. http://drupal.org/project/webform
WYSIWYG Editor
Drupal 6 by default has no WYSIWYG editor and thus when entering the content it will be based on some basic knowledge of html code. So it is essential that as part of the modules you add to your site, you should add an editor that your comfortable using. Drupal 6 has many editors that can be used such as the WYSIWYG module, CKEditor, FCKeditor, and TinyMCE. http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor
So, implementing these modules will help incorporate more features and simplicity of creating content on your Drupal site. These modules will take your sites capabilities and options to a whole new level and simpler implementation.
If you’re a Drupal user and have found any other modules that have contributed vastly to the extension of your Drupal site, would you be so kind to share your thoughts about it by posting a comment. Thank you for sharing in advance.
Essential Drupal 6 modules that you should use
When you finally finished setting up your Drupal Installation and ready to begin implementing some functionality and features that you’ll want to use, remember these several modules as basics to implement along with the modules you’ll add. These modules will contribute to the extension of flexibility and functionality of your Drupal site and its content.
Administration Menu
The administration menu provides better manipulation and access to the administrative and configuration settings, rather than using the traditional Drupal administration page. This module will put at the top of the site template a black menu bar, which will provide a drop-down menu of all the administration options. Also gives you the option to move the edit tab buttons into the administration bar, which helps centralize all the edit buttons at the top in one region.
http://drupal.org/project/admin_menu
CCK (Content Construction Kit)
The CCK module expands the capabilities and customization for creating custom fields and content types. This provides a web interface that will help you create custom fields and content types easily without having to go through the effort of coding them out.
http://drupal.org/project/cck
Clone
The clone module will let you make a copy of existing content on your site. It will provide you with an exact copy of the content with an exception of the author and title (it will insert “clone of” in the clone copy). Convenient for duplicating content that have some of the basic information or needs for the new content.
http://drupal.org/project/node_clone
Views
The views module provides a flexible way of controlling the content on your site. This helps gather, filter and manipulate similar content. It helps with querying the vast amount of content on your site and creates data that you need about the content you’ve created or acquired (such as the WebForms data).
http://drupal.org/project/views
WebForms
WebForms module provides a quick and easy implementation to create a form on your site. The module provides many basic form essential fields: text, text-area, select, etc. and other submission features. The Webform becomes a content type, so it will also be easy to query the data collected from the forms you make.
http://drupal.org/project/webform
WYSIWYG Editor
Drupal 6 by default has no WYSIWYG editor and thus when entering the content it will be based on some basic knowledge of html code. So it is essential that as part of the modules you add to your site, you should add an editor that your comfortable using. Drupal 6 has many editors that can be used such as the WYSIWYG module, CKEditor, FCKeditor, and TinyMCE.
http://drupal.org/project/wysiwyg
http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor
http://drupal.org/project/fckeditor
So, implementing these modules will help incorporate more features and simplicity of creating content on your Drupal site. These modules will take your sites capabilities and options to a whole new level and simpler implementation.
If you’re a Drupal user and have found any other modules that have contributed vastly to the extension of your Drupal site, would you be so kind to share your thoughts about it by posting a comment. Thank you for sharing in advance.