Polishing Drupal - An Out of the Box Experience [#613854]

What should be included in a drupal package which is designed with non-drupalers in mind?

I'm hoping to make Drupal as easy to use as Blogger, Facebook, Twitter, and the many other web apps that churches are already using for their ministries. This means they shouldn't need to be concerned with knowing what a "node" is, or having to configure a dozen modules to get images to work right.

How can we do this?

I've made a list of modules I think will help this effort on the main page of the project. Are these modules good? Should I add any more?

Comments

Comment #1

vm commented 25 October 2009 at 03:19

some preconfigured content types may be a benefit. Similar to what views_gallery.module does in this regard.

Comment #2

g76 commented 24 November 2009 at 11:46

Hello,
how about image cache and image cache actions, just add a cck image field to your node type and create image cache presets (resize, rounded corners, canvass, etc..) and then set your display for that field with the appropriate preset. Also, you can create a view and use semantic views to easily customize styling through css (such as having the image on the left and text on the right in views displays.)

This way, users just create content, upload and image and all the formatting is done for them.

I think what your doing is great, thank you so much and God Bless!

Jen