Last updated May 25, 2010. Created by jester on September 16, 2009.
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This tutorial lists some modules for a fully fledged website using Drupal.
I am creating a site for learning purposes and wanted to document how I did it. This will help other people understand the processes I performed. This will also help me remember the things I have done especially when I need to explain them for several times in the future.
The first modules you should install are: Advanced Help, Administration Menu
The needs of this site are as follows.
General modules: Nice Menus, Rules, Taxonomy, Views Slideshow
Multiple page status: Twitter
WYSIWYG HTML editor: IMCE, FCKeditor
Product Catalog: Views, CCK, Tokens,ImageField, FileField, FileField Paths, ImageField Tokens
Glass Artists Profiles: Advanced Profile, User gallery, User tutorials/How-to's, User video tutorials
Retail online store: Ubercart
Whole-sale point of sale software: I don't know if this will ever be implemented but its nice to dream lol.
Forum: Voting API, Fivestar, Advanced Forum, Flag
File Organization: File upload
PDF, email, print: Printer, e-mail and PDF versions with wkhtmltopdf,
Image: thumbnail creation, Image Upload, Lightbox2
SEO: Page Title, Seo Checklist
SEO friendly url creation: PathAuto
Statistics reports: Google Analytics
Ping pages: Add to Any Share/Bookmark Button
Site map: XMLsitemap
MetaTag: Nodewords
Email: Email Field??
Email list manager: Simplenews, Mime Mail
Theming: Panels
Automatic backups: Backup and Migrate
Calendar of events: Calendar, Date
Retail store search: Location, Gmap
Spam prevention: Mollom
Messages: Notifications, messaging
Feeds: FeedAPI
Classes: Signup
Comments
Where's the rest?
Spent too much time downloading/installing the modules only to find that there is no next step........
Pinchas
Looking forward to the next
Looking forward to the next steps.. I learned about all these modules and spent an afternoon reading about them.. I don't think I would have done it without the lucrative title: step by step Website Tutorial
Good luck building you website.
any more traction on this?
Thank you for sharing Looking forward to seeing your process on configuring up your site :-)
Drupal 6 tutorial
I've put together an end user guide on:
http://www.1websitedesigner.com/drupal-end-user-guide
I'd certainly recommend the FCK Editor, as this lets you do a whole load of things so much easier and the other modules are all good recommendations too.
Hope that helps!
Martin