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Pimping Your Site Michael Anello DrupalEasy @ultimike Monday, February 14, 2011

Awesome modules to enhance your site. Monday, February 14, 2011

ImageCache http://www.drupal.org/project/imagecache Monday, February 14, 2011 Now part of Drupal 7 - called “Image Styles” Allows site admin to define preset image manipulations scale/crop/rotate/etc...

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Pathauto http://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto Monday, February 14, 2011 Automatically generates path aliases for your content Great for usability and SEO

Pathauto http://www.drupal.org/project/pathauto example.com/node/1342 vs. example.com/why-pathauto-rocks example.com/user/764 vs. example.com/user/mike Monday, February 14, 2011 Automatically generates path aliases for your content Great for usability and SEO Global redirect

404 Navigation http://www.drupal.org/project/navigation404 Monday, February 14, 2011 404 is the standard http code for “page not found” Drupal turns o fg primary and secondary links on 404 pages by default This module turns them back on to allow you to provide users someplace to go No configuration necessary - nothing to see

Without 404 Navigation With 404 Navigation Monday, February 14, 2011 Can you spot the di fg erence? Be sure to clear cache after enabling.

Backup and Migrate http://www.drupal.org/project/backup_migrate Monday, February 14, 2011 Must-have on all sites. No excuses.

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Module Filter http://www.drupal.org/project/module_filter Monday, February 14, 2011 Tame your modules page Filter by category and/or name

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Administration Menu http://www.drupal.org/project/admin_menu Monday, February 14, 2011

Monday, February 14, 2011 “Adjust top margin” setting not yet working - http://drupal.org/node/801526

SEO Modules Monday, February 14, 2011 Search Engine Optimization

• Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/ project/globalredirect) Monday, February 14, 2011 Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags

• Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/ project/globalredirect) • Page Title (http://www.drupal.org/project/ page_title) Monday, February 14, 2011 Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags

• Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/ project/globalredirect) • Page Title (http://www.drupal.org/project/ page_title) • XML sitemap (http://www.drupal.org/ project/xmlsitemap) Monday, February 14, 2011 Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags

• Global Redirect (http://www.drupal.org/ project/globalredirect) • Page Title (http://www.drupal.org/project/ page_title) • XML sitemap (http://www.drupal.org/ project/xmlsitemap) • SEO Compliance Checker - http:// www.drupal.org/project/seo_checker) Monday, February 14, 2011 Pathauto - already talked about! Global Redirect - one URL per node Page Title - granular control over page titles XML sitemap - creates an industry-standard XML sitemap for search engines SEO Compliance Checker - provides SEO feedback on a per-node basis SEO modules not yet available: SEO Checklist, MetaTags

Dashboard (it’s part of Drupal 7 core!) Monday, February 14, 2011 Customize it to suit your admin needs.

Monday, February 14, 2011 Create/add your own blocks (from other modules or Views) Customize Shortcut bar links (“User Perms”) - multiple set support Each admin user can choose which set of shortcut links to use!

Demo? Questions? Monday, February 14, 2011 What do you want to see more of?