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It's been a little while since my first post covering some of the more useful drupal modules, so for all you drupal-nerds, here are a few more useful modules we use here at Best Rank to build solid, robust websites:
Views - A "view" is sort of like a web page or a list that spits out database driven information in a way that you specify... for example, this main blog page on our site (www.bestrank.com/blog) is a view because it displays only blog nodes (pages) and lists them by date (newest closer to the top). We could also get more specific and create a view where we only show blog posts by certain authors, or maybe a block showing posts related to this one (as shown in the image to the right) - or get completely different and display the latest comments from pages around our site in ascending or descending order. The possibilities are virtually limitless and the Views module is pretty amazing because it lets us build these data driven views without any programming. For the power users, the Views module does allow for custom theming and programming to make your views very customizable.
Ubercart - need a shopping cart for drupal? Look no further, really, Ubercart is an incredibly flexible shopping cart system/module built just for drupal. We've even got an ubercart video tutorial right here. The only gripe I have so far is that you can't yet have your product attributes/options show up as fields in views, but that might change soon (this isn't critical just something we found out on a recent project).
Lightbox2 - is a wonderful little module that lets you display your images in a pop-up/background-darkening format (sample image to the right). You can have images, which are attached to nodes, display in lightbox format or even have inline images display this way! :)
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