OMG, I haven’t left the house in two days! I have got a lot done tho, it has been completely worth it.
I have got a site that seems to be doing what I want it to and I got it looking kinda sweet too! (By the way – I decided to use a more developed theme to help me get it to look good, I know that I wanted to do it on my own but it seemed so daft when there are such good themes out there!)
Here is a list of the modules that I have uploaded and why-
Actually before I do – just in case I didn’t explain properly before (and to help me understand it more) I better just explain what modules are. Basically the modules in drupal are the functions that it can perform, sort of. They are activated within the administration menu and then after that more menus will appear in the admin menu and the website will be able to do more stuff.
So for example one of the core modules that comes with drupal, is the ‘poll’ module which allows you to put a poll or question on the site and then people can vote. Also there is a module for user login and search. Like, all the things you want to have on the site will be a module. And a lot of these modules will be contributed modules which means that they are made by contributers, who then allow us all to use them. So they all fit with drupal but they have to be downloaded separately from the drupal.org site. The contributed ones can be really great and I think most people do use them.
I have downloaded the following so far –
Image – This is the first module I downloaded and I did this so that I can add images to my blog posts and pages in the site. I have later downloaded another image module. (tho not sure if it was the right thing to do yet)
Image Cache – this is the other image module that I downloaded and I did this because on Learn by The Drop it was recommended and he did a video showing how to make an image gallery by using this module. I have not managed to get this to work tho…. but thats another story.
Image Field and Image API are another two that I got to go with image cache. It seems to be quite normal for contributed modules to work together and so you have to download one or two at a time.
Mollom – this is a security module that will protect from spam.
Path Auto – I got this to help with naming the urls for the site so that they are nice names and not node/7 or whatever.
Wysiwig – This is a ‘what you see is what you get’ module that means that I can now write blog posts and make bold and italics and stuff without using code. Makes it easier I think.
IMCE – I am not really altogether certain about this one, I downloaded it while I was doing a video tutorial and I thought it had something to do with uploading photos within the wysiwig but I am not sure now as that part of it doesn’t seem to be working terrible well.
Google Analytics – I got this so that when the site is up and running I will be able to track it well and see how it is doing.
Views – This is the module that lets you make different views like galleries I think.
Token – To be honest I can’t remember why I got this one but I think it works with another one.
Skinr – I had to get this when I got my new theme. More about that later
Lightbox2 – I think I got this for the Image cache module but as I said thats not working so good at the moment.
Filefield – I think this goes with Image Field.
Ubercart – wow this module is sooo amazing!!! It is like a fully set up shop! Everything is there all ready to be customised. There are catalogues for the products, product pages where all the info is filled in, upload images, delivery prices, checkout, different payment methods. And the whole thing has real good admin with it too for all the orders and the tracking and all that. Its going to be soooo awesome – My site already looks like a shop and I haven’t even really started yet! I love this one so much!
So yeh – those are my modules and as you can see there are a few issues that I am having so I hope to have these ironed out over the next few days or weeks or whatever.
Feels good to have made some progress.
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