The Anonymous Publishing module increases your control over anonymous
publishing on a site.
Allowing anonymous publishing may lower the threshold for authorship and entry to a site. Sites that deal with sensitive issues may want to provide their users with the ability to publish anonymously.
Finder allows Drupal site administrators to create flexible faceted search forms to find entities such as nodes or users based on the values of fields and database attributes.
Composite Layout allows your nodes to be displayed in complex layouts. Currently, two and three column layouts are provided. You can also add other nodes, blocks, and even CCK fields to your node's layout. The content area of your node is divided into zones and you decide what should appear in those zones. Zones are essentially the same as Drupal blocks, but they apply to nodes rather than the entire site.
You can think of Composite Layout as Drupal blocks for nodes.
There is overlap in functionality between Composite Layout and Panels. Both address the issue of complex layouts, but each has a different approach.
Here is an informal comparison:
Panels is more powerful and flexible (I think, I'm not a Panels expert).
Composite Layout is simpler (I hope).
The user interface is different. You may prefer one or the other.
Composite Layout applies on content types, so it can be turned on for any node. Furthermore, you can have more than one composite layout node type.
If you use the Content Construction Kit, Composite Layout allows you to manage the layout of your CCK fields.
Otherwise, it will probably come down to personal preference as to which is more suitable.
When installing CuteMenu you get one CuteMenu block per menu. The block is a top-menu with a drop down (using the 1st and 2nd level menu items.)
Using a CuteMenu block generates HTML using many <div> tags so one can really nicely theme the menu the way they want it to be without having to write code for it. The result is that you can dearly beautify the menu.
CuteMenu shows the selected menus as dropdowns, including a header and a footer. Although only two levels are shown—top bar & one vertical drop down—your can include images in the header and footer of the drop down.
Dropdown Menu and Flash Animations in FireFox & clones
I have had that issue for years. A dropdown menu will draw a widget with a Z index higher than the other items on the screen. This is how you see them on top. Neat. But with Firefox or SeaMonkey, a Flash animation, no matter what, would always remain on top. This is because the animation is shown in a separate window (X11 or MS-Windows window, not just rendered over.) This is great because that way it is faster. But it breaks the dropdown menu feature...