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    • ]]>     It has been a year ago since I started developing websites utilizing the Drupal Content Management System. For a brief introduction, Drupal, as we all know, is one of the widely used Content Management Systems. You can try Joomla, PhpNuke, Mambo, and all those other flavors of CMS, but it is Drupal that I frequently use. Website creation and development in Drupal revolves around its modules. What you want your website to display is basically through the Drupal Modules. Some might be provided by default, and some are in Drupal’s website for you to download and install. As a freelance developer, I have used numerous modules of Drupal and here are some of the few modules that I recommend to have a tick on your module list checkboxes.

    1. CCK (Content Construction Kit) – You can’t have your website if you don’t have content fields. Put some custom Content fields to make your Contents more detailed.
    2. Panels – Customize and personalize your pages’ layout for a better look on your website.
    3. Views and Views Bonus Pack – If you have listing pages, this module is useful to add a more customized list. Includes table, grid and node listing features.
    4. Image API – For high-end processing schemes of images and photos that your website supports.
    5. Blog and Blog API – For basic portfolio websites with avid blogger authors, you might include this in your list. This is one of the stock modules of Drupal
    6. Forums – For community websites, a community discussion board might be useful. This is also a stock module of Drupal
    7. PrivateMsg – Another module that allows sending messages between users for community websites.
    8. Buddylist and Invite – If you are creating a social networking website, this modules are where to start best.
    9. Voting and Voting API – These modules provide voting and rating functionalities for your post nodes and contents.
    10. Workflow-ng – Works like database triggers. Allows more functions to be attached together with other functions for a more flexible site.

    You can download these modules thru Drupal’s official Module Download section or at drupalmodules.com.

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