[support] Favorite modules - recommendation

[Jorge Biquez]

Hello Jeff.

Thank you very much for your time on this thread. I really appreciate 
all your comments .

IN another list I asked why users stay with Drupal and the answers 
confirm what I have decided, that what makes Drupal be th ebest 
option is the support of the community, it is something that had made 
some other Open Source projects to be the winners.

Too old? We are all young in our minds always. Maybe our bodies are 
changing and are getting old but I am sure we always will be young 
poeple, with lot of energy indie of us.

I will try during the weekend all the comments and advise all of you 
have told me. I would like to start the week maybe with a new 
installation, more solid and that maybe could be the foundation for 
what I would like to accomplish.

Thank you all for your help.

Have a nice weekend.

Jorge Biquez

At 09:52 a.m. 30/04/2011, you wrote:
>Hi Jorge,
>
>On 30 Apr 2011, at 4:47 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote:
>
> > Hello all.
> >
> > I am learning and studying Drupal. Actually on version 7 since my
> > hosting company (with CPanel) only provide version 7 as option for
> > instaltion with Fantastico. I have been playing with version 7, it
> > works, have had some issues that are very simple and do not work
> > (like having a menu link under a parent one, it just lost the child
> > menu and does not appear in any place. Anyway I am not sure if it is
> > a Drupal BUg or I am doing something wrong. Since I can install
> > rapidly I am starting from zero again to se if maybe I damaged
> > something in some way.
> >
> > For starters. Do you think it is better to downgrade to 6 (I can
> > install it manually). Or continue with 7?
>
>Depends. *lol*
>
> > I have read that 7 is better and easier to learn for newbies.
>
>  From what I've seen, it's sweet. The one thing I like most about 7 is
>that user profiles are more tightly integrated and can be taxonomy
>tagged. (Haven't really got a working prototype yet, but for me that's
>a clincher.)
>
> > What would be your advice?
>
>Well I cheat a little and try to find nice themes that do everything
>for me. Not that I can't CSS, but life is too short to push pixels
>around, and I'm too old. ;)
>
>Check out  Danland. It's a great theme.
>
>There are many more out there, but you have to play with them to find
>the one that suits. (I really like that drupal.org lists the themes by
>downloads. So you get an instantaneous idea of popularity and traction.)
>
>As far as recommended modules go, it's so hard to say, since it varies
>from site to site. But modules I can recommend are (in no particular
>order, and some I purely list as dependencies - or best guesses - as I
>can't claim any working knowledge whatsoever :):
>
>CKEditor
>WYSIWYG
>Views
>CTools
>Pathauto
>Token
>Insert (or Imagepicker)
>Colorbox
>OG
>ACL
>Petition
>VotingAPI
>Flag
>Date
>Search 404
>Logintoboggan
>Nodetype
>Mollom
>Blockanonymouslinks
>Notifications (OR subscriptions! I haven't worked my head around these
>2 satisfactorily yet.)
>Google Analytics
>Google Adsense
>
>Facebook / Reddit / Digg (um.. whatever),  etc integration modules
>(Recommend/Like) are not on my priority list right now - but they may
>also be a good exercise for you...
>
>Important: If you do go back to Drupal 6, be sure to standardize on
>filefield and imagefield, as they are included in Core 7, and will
>make your upgrade path approachable.
>
>I hope you don't mind, but I've hijacked this thread slightly in the
>hope that others will recommend their favorite modules, too?
>
>HTH
>--
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