top drupal modules for beginners
DESCRIPTION
In this presentation, I highlight helpful Drupal modules that will assist beginners into getting immersed to the Drupal experience quickly.TRANSCRIPT
I’m a Drupal noob
Top Drupal modules
for beginners
Get a good Drupal
server environment
something like…
WHY>
...
• 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
Got that?
Great.
Bird’s Eye-view
Navigation
• Teleport
• Admin Menu
• Admin
Con tent
• Apture
• BUEditor
• Simple Views
• Backup & Migrate
• 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.
• 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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