Hi all
Sorry for the slightly vague topic header. I'm putting together my first Drupal site and have been through loads of tutorials (Lynda etc). I am using the Acquia Slate theme and wondered if you could recommend the best modules for the following:
Photos - I've got Lightbox2 installed and running which seems good (though I need to suss a way of making the thumbnails)
Menus - I can't seem to get very good secondary links (and really I'd like to add a sidebar menu with related links) within Acquia Slate. I was thinking of trying out Superfish
Campaign - I'd like to be able to send all registered users an email? Can this be done from within Drupal or do you just export the email addresses from MySQL?
Product - I'm not sure if the vanilla CCK is the best way to add product content or whether there are modules that sit on top of it that make life easier. The site will have 3 main categories of product and then numerous different items within each category.
The web site I'm designing is for my dad's engineering company. I'd like to show products. We're obviously not at the e-commerce or ubercart stage, but would like to show products and allow users to search for products etc. To this end, are there any other must have modules?
I'm sorry - I know there are module pages here and I've been through them quite a lot, but I'm really confused with so much choice which ones to go for.
Thanks for any help
Cheers
Jibb :-)
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thumbnails - http://drupal.org/project/imagecache
mass email - http://drupal.org/project/mass_contact or http://drupal.org/project/views_mail
products - if you plan on doing ecommerce in the future you'll want to pick your module now, then implement products through the module. You should be able to setup your product catalog with ubercart and just not use the cart functionality. Once you do that, you can use the http://drupal.org/project/views module to create all sorts of listings and custom searches.
Awesome! Thanks loads
Awesome! Thanks loads WorldFallz. I don't know why I didn't think of the ubercart option without selling.....good point. Will give all 3 a try.
Thanks again.
Ubercart
Ubercart comes fully loaded with contributed modules including imagecache, and other useful modules displaying content and for selling online. Check it out. It may take some hours to view all the functions of Ubercart a long with drupal's core modules, but its very much a good investment of your time.
http://www.ubercart.org/
EG
Have recently migrated an OS commerce (approx 3,000 users and as many orders) site to Ubercart, with some custom payment modules. They also boast newsletters (simplenews module), call back request forms (webform + webform block), forum, five star ratings, google shopping list feed (google_base), popular products blocks, and sms framework for sending and receiving text messages.
Hope it will help you
Peace
E
Nice one Endarr - I'm going
Nice one Endarr - I'm going to give it a whirl - thanks