cunsolo.it Giuseppe Cunsolo webpages

I've been constantly working on the drupal installation on my personal website for more than 2 weeks, so far. I can say I'm satisfied with the website look & feel, and pretty much everything.

The mere installation is quite easy, can be done in 1-2h of work if you know the drill.

I'm sticking with the 6.x branch.
With Drupal 7.x already being worked on, and 5.x support being discontinued for some modules, I feel the 6.x is the way to do it, actually.

After the installation, I spent a couple of hours each day, digging the Drupal modules page and checking drupalmodules.com for this and that.

In my humble vision of a personal website:

less modules = less security issues = easier maintenance = happier me

At the end of the day, what I really needed was:

• comments and rating
• image gallery
• a blog engine
• some static page
• tags & clouds
• some kind of automated website activity (feeds, trackbacks, spam filters, aggregator)
• some kind of site counter
• some basic linking (too lazy to search my delicious page :p)
• meta tags

... get everything mixed with oil and salt, and put the pan on medium heat.

Now, YOU have to tell me if it tastes good.

About the modules I used.
There would be reasons to keep this secret, but I do trust the Drupal security policies.
(You can read a awesome post here on lullabot.com).

That said, the modules I'm actually using are:
addtoany, badbehavior, captcha+captcha_pack, counter, date, extlink, fckeditor, fivestar, fotonotes, gravatar, i18n, iconizer, image, imce, languageicons, lightbox2, nodewords, pathauto, preferred_format, print, site_map, tagadelic, token, trackback, views, votingapi, weblinks, xmlsitemap.

Don't forget to check the Drupal handbooks, the Drupal getting started page, and the Drupal security page. Drupal it's easy to use&setup, but you never stop learning.

And don't forget to check the Drupal Theme Garden for a nice sneak preview of themes. I tried awesome themes like Wabi and Noprob, but I actually prefer to stick with the Garland core theme with some very easy customization.