Drupal With the Pick of Addons and Themes.
I have been using the opensource Content Management System, Drupal, for a while now. It is one of the more versatile and feature laid en CMS that I know of. But the try functionality comes from the plugins or modules.
Heavily expanding on Keith Bond’s 5 must have Drupal Modules from a while ago I have pieced together a package of some of the best modules and themes.
Download here ~ 2.5Mb
Additional Modules include:
Adsense / Adsense Injector, Nodewords, service links and feedback as mentioned in Keith’s post.
Ad - Advertising system
The Image systems that allow images to be uploaded and included in a post
Event - Calendaring API, calendar display and export
Mass Contact - Enables site administrator or privileged users to send mass e-mails to registered users.
FlashVideo - this is beta - but allows uploading of video and conversion to Flash - requires some special server configuration
Pathauto - Automatically generates User friendly / SE friendly readable URLS.
I have also included a dozen extra themes / templates.
More than enough to get you started producing well managed content driven website.
Thanks, a useful post!
I switched to Drupal a couple of months back, after I grew out of Wordpress, and I love it!
A bit difficult to get the hang off (taxonomies etc), but its well worth it.
Only problem I have is with SEO, the sites not doing great in the search engines, even with Path auto and the meta tags plug in, as well as many url’s blocked by robots.txt to stop duplicate content. About 75% of the site has gone supplemental! Must admit though, I haven’t had time to sit down and investigate full whats going wrong.
Comment by Gareth | July 9, 2007
Why not gsitemap? seems like this would help just as much w/ SEO. But, overall, I agree with your list.
Also, a useful affiliate tool i’ve found is adding content-specific eBay auctions to my website. You can do this very easily with drupal using the instructions at http://www.AuctionsInSite.com
Comment by Jared | November 8, 2007