By dbrsystems on

If new to Drupal, what is the suggested setup? Core - Drupal 5.x

When setting up a site what do you suggest?

Which modules?

Which themes?

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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benovic’s picture

benovic commented

teh core is pretty good. the rest depends on what you need. editor and multimedia would be my next step (but im a noob)

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sepeck commented

What do you want to do with your site? Then people can make more relevant suggestions. One persons 'must have' is another persons 'avoid at all costs'. :)

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide

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dbrsystems commented

I want to move our church site to a drupal system. The current site is http://sequoyahchurch.org and is custom programmed in ASP and SQL. I want to migrate to drupal to make it easier to support and collaborate. I want to start with a similar site to what we have now. Then, add more functionality through drupal. I plan to use my test site http://dbrs-test.com to setup the site then move it to the church after everthing is working.

DBR Systems, Inc.
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Mel55113 commented

I just spent a few minutes looking at your church's site. I didn't see anything there that couldn't be accomplished with just the core modules. However, I would definitely add the Moxie (the new old TinyMCE WYSIWYG editor) to simplify content creation. You can add additional modules as you find a need.

IMO a site really only needs one theme. Your challenge becomes finding/choosing the theme you are either willing to use "out of the box" (probably unlikely) or one that you can customize to meet your needs and preferences. A lot can be done by modifying CSS attributes. I suggest adding your own css file and putting your customizations in that file to simplify future maintenance.

Mel

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sepeck commented

Your biggest time sink will be getting familiar with Drupal and porting/customizing your theme. You can probably port your existing theme without real issue.

Page, menu, contact, profile, upload. Then port your theme.
If nice modules gets updated to 5.0 that would help with the navigation you have but you can also hard code that.

The reference to Moxio above can help you depending on your user base/needs. Image module

Further suggestions for future exploration of features to possibly add to your site, cck, date, calendar, views and signup.

There are a number of church sites using Drupal. Here's a starting point for you of others interested in the subject.
http://www.geeksandgod.com/

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide