top drupal modules for beginners

I’m a Drupal noob

Top Drupal modules

for beginners

Get a good Drupal

server environment

something like…

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...

• If you don’t have a good web-server,

you’re most likely to:

– experience slow response

– not able to use cool features

– get frustrated at yourself or Drupal

– head-aches

avoid

head-aches

fill what you NEED,

NOT what you want

otherwise:

get headaches

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Got that?

Great.

Bird’s Eye-view

Navigation

• Teleport

• Admin Menu

• Admin

Con tent

• Apture

• BUEditor

• Simple Views

• Backup & Migrate

Teleportdrupal.org/project/teleport

• transport to pages ala Star-Trek

– Seriously: use this if you need to jump to

a path/page by just entering a keyword.

Admin Menudrupal.org/project/admin_menu

• provides a helpful admin bar

– exposes organized menu-links that will

surely help you click your way thru the

Drupal back-end.

Backup & Migratedrupal.org/project/backup_migrate

• save and restore your database

– If you did something wrong, effortlessly

restore a snapshot of your database

without the fuzz of stressful manual labor.

Admindrupal.org/project/admin

• satisfy your back-end navigation needs

– offers an enhanced navigation gui bar

• also complements Admin Menu

Module Filterdrupal.org/project/module_filter

• filter modules with ease– type a keyword & the module page will show

matching hits to you.

– toggle list of modules (by)• enabled

• disabled

• required

• unavailable

BUEditordrupal.org/project/bueditor

• assists in writing HTML code for your

editing needs

– provides configurable buttons of html

tags.

– wraps your text in open/end html tags

automagically.

Apturedrupal.org/project/apture

www.apture.com

• makes embedding of multimedia

objects & page-links a no-brainer.

– your links pop in a beautiful floating

dialog-box without reloading the page.

– upload files to their AMAZON S3-powered

server, not yours.

Simple Viewsdrupal.org/project/simpleviews

• build lists of your site’s content w/o

overwhelming your senses.

– makes it easier to understand the

complexity of Views with less information

overload.

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