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Website Tutorial - list of modules

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

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