Starting a New Drupal Site

Install

  • Make the default settings.php.
  • Make settings.php and sites/default writable by web server
  • Set up db config in settings.php
  • Run the install script from a browser

Modules

  • Admin Menu
  • Backup/Migration
  • Views (most likely)
  • Advanced Help
  • CCK (most likely)
  • Pathauto
  • Token (needed by Pathauto)

Themes

  • Zen

Setting Up a New Drupal Site

  • Remember to include the .htaccess file, and turn on clean URLs
  • Create sites/all/modules and sites/all/themes

Modules to Install/Setup Right Away

3rd Party

  • Admin menu
  • Advanced help
  • Backup/Migration
  • Google Analytics
  • Mollom
  • Views

Core

  • Path

Theming Start

  • Install Zen (refer to Zen README)

Content Setup

  • Turn on revisions for pages and stories (why not?)