This is how I start the new year (I actually ended it that way as well), I (re-)develop our personal web site using Drupal 5.5. What else can you in your holiday really.... ;) So far the site had been plain HTML (well, with CSS) and it's about time to make something new. I tried Typo3 but unfortunately I never could get anything to work.
Anyways, to install Drupal was a mater of minutes, so zero problems. But as I looked around I discovered more and more things that are not included in the core package. Like the ability to add keywords, etc. So, really some basic things or at least what I think are basic things.
At the end of the day I kept searching & adding one module after he other. Now, to be honest, I don't know if that is a bit too much what I have done here with the modules but so far I added about 15 modules. Probably a couple or so more to come. It sort of feels as if I'd be a module junkie. But then again, when I worked with Joomla basic things like Meta Tags work out of the box.
What do other Drupal admins say? Is that too much? How many modules did you (had to) add to make the site work like you wanted it to be? What modules are you using, what do you think is essential to have? Which of the Core modules are you using?
Greetings from the MatriX
neo
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Drupal Needs a lot of Modules
Drupal has been designed from the ground up as a very basic site. The idea was to add modules to gain functionality.
A quick look at this site shows about a half dozen extra modules, and this site is pretty simple.
One thing that I have wanted to try out, but worried about wrecking this site, is the SEO stuff for it. If you try that out, let me know.
Bill Hutchison
My Blog
lots and lots and lots
Hi Bill,
yes, Drupal needs quite some extra modules. The half dozen you use are really, well, quite few. So far I use (or play with) the following ones:
So far so good. But I'm really still developing the site. I can't tell if I'll keep them all or if I'll search for other ones. I haven't looked into SEO. Obviously I need the content first before the search engines has some work to do ;)
Greetings from the MatriX,
neo
YAM - Yet Another Module
I need to extend the list sooner than I thought ;)
So, I wanted to have a different color for different pages on the site. E.g. blue-ish for the Home page, red-ish for the Blog, brown-ish for About Us, etc. The module "Taxonomy Theme" seems to do it. That makes it about 20 modules now, I guess.
Greetings from the MatriX,
neo
user images in blog posts
Hi all you Drupal experts. Got a quick question.
So, I got my website up & running and all seems fine. But wanted to have the user images to be displayed in blog posts. Well, basically just like here. But I can't get that to work. Does that depend on the Theme that is used? Does anybody know??
I don't use one of the standard Themes that come with Drupal. So, I somehow think that it depends on the Theme unless I miss the spot where to enable/disable that feature. The image comes up just fine in the user profile but just not in the blog post.
Any ideas? A setting somewhere or does that require a extra Module??
Thanks for any advice.
Greetings from the MatriX,
neo