Ideas collection

There are always a dozen ways to get to the goal with drupal. Often one is not the best for all requirements. So here I want to write about the things that I thought about weather another solution could be better when using corporative_site.

1. General Ideas and thoughts

1.1 ckeditor + feature + imce vs wysiwyg + media

Wysiwyg and media module is where most developers are heading. I believe it is the better solution as well. Especially because more and more modules depend on media module or work together with it.

1.2 General Module and fb social

Not every site needs fb social but it cannot be deactivated without deactivating general module first which leads to errors.

1.3 Check out how typo3 does things

typo3 (there are others as well of cause) does a good job as a product for creating corporate sites. So learning from the strengths can help us improve the install profile.

2. Adding common modules

Everyone has different favorites. Some like admin module some admin menu. So of cause you can't and shouldn't try to make it right for everyone. Anyway adding some modules in disabled state I think could speed up development and therefore help adoption of the install profile.

2.1 Panels

On corporate sites one often wants to display content in boxes next to each other in a way that cannot be done by the block system.

2.2 Backup Migrate + aes

Great utility, especially while developing. Can't imaginge working w/o drush bam-backup.

2.3 Devel

Very helpful util as well.

2.4 Administration Menu

One of the most commonly used modules.

2.5 Google Analytics, Global Redirect & XML sitemap

Not necessary but a lot of users will install it later anyway.

2.6 Language files and l10n_update

Most corporate sites in the world are not English. ;) It would be nice to include the most common language files (if there is an easy way to do this).

2.7 Add Business themes

Just a thought. This could help searching for themes to built upon.