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Drupal Modules - Empowering the Site Feature

Topic: SoftwarePublished October 25, 2012

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Owing to the features like customized URL, search engine friendly architecture, and efficient content management solution, Drupal is one of the widely used open source content management systems. It is known for transforming the dull looking and merely functional websites into highly appealing and impactful online brands with its resourceful modules. In this way, the Drupal modules play an important part in enhancing the functionality of a website. Thus, it is needful to know the top ten Drupal modules that can be installed on your website for enhancing the functionality of your website. The top ten Drupal Modules are mentioned below: Content Construction Kit CCK: Coined as CCK in short, content construction kit is known as the best Drupal among its users. With the help of this module, you can add custom fields. In this way, it makes you able in creating multiple content fields that can be used for filling text, images, and videos. Google XML Sitemap Generator: It is one of the most used Drupal tools. This tool is like a requisite need for a website. This Module automatically generates XML sitemaps of the website, which helps the Google crawlers to understand the website in a better way. Such help for crawlers often results in the better rankings of a website. Thus, it is like requisite module for every Drupal CMS based website. Backup and Migrate: This is an innovative and useful module of Drupal. It helps the website administrator in taking a backup of a website and migration of such backup onto other website. It makes the process simple and risk-free. Global Redirect: It is known for taking care of URL structures. Technically, it monitors the URL by checking access to a URL as well as check for an alias/trailing slash in the current URL. Image Cache: It is the top fifth Module that allows easy edition and processing of an image. With the help of this module, you can do several jobs with your images such as cropping, resizing, and rotation. Yet, it needs the support of Image API module. Boost: This module is known for reducing the website loading. It catches the Drupal in simple static HTML files. Moreover, it can work even with on shared hosting. Google Analytics: This module allows adding multiple features in your website such as Google Adsense and custom code snippets. Apart from this, it also tracks single, multi, and cross domains. CAPTCHA: This Module blocks the form submissions by spambots. The spambots are the form of automated scripts, which post spam contents at websites. This Drupal module can be used by any Drupal website user. JQuery Update: This module updates the install Jquery of your Drupal website, on availability of new update. Token: The tokens are like tiny text bits, which can be laid in big docs by using via placeholders, like %site-name or [user]. This module of drupal gives a central API for modules for making use of such tokens, and exposing their own token values. Additionally, it does not notify the user with any visible except assisting other modules in handing tasks.

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Mike Swan, Online Marketing head at Markupcloud loves to share knowledge on various topics related to web design and web development. If you are looking for PSD to Drupal theme conversion and PSD to Joomla conversion services, contact us at Markupcloud.com for the best and affordable services.

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