gestaltware

The Drupal community is rich in active developers. By my very unscientific survey, there are 1,110 contributed modules that are ostensibly 5.x compatible.¹ It can consequently be daunting for both newcomers and old hands alike to keep abreast of what's useful on the Drupal scene which is why lists of top modules are ever-popular. I came across the Top Drupal Modules list on UnSpun by Amazon, and was shocked by which modules did not make the cut on the community-ranked list.Read more

Social networks are one of the salient characteristics of Web 2.0. Social bookmarking services like del.icio.us and digg allow members to save and share their site findings, which when aggregated over a large number of users, creates a "wisdom of the crowds" effect. Think these services are only for bloggers?Read more

Drupal has its own core statistics module to track page hits, referrers, and visitors. While it serves basic needs, I have long been dissatisfied with this module and recently switched all of my sites over to the free Google Analytics service. The service is easily enabled on a Drupal site with a contributed module written by Mike Carter.Read more

Websnapr for Drupal is a module that adds website thumbnail previews to external links from the free Websnapr service. It provides the proverbial what-you-see-is-what-you-get visual indication of the link destination in a small footprint.Read more