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The Little Things in Life: Basic Drupal Site Set-up

Two little extras to make a new Drupal installation that extra little bit better (it's the Agaric way):

  • Put a robots.txt in root.
  • Put favicon.ico in root, even if it's already somewhere else or called something else.

And some contributed (third-party, non-Drupal-core) modules:

  • Pathauto: Banish node/# from your site with human and search-engine friendly URLs based on post titles. (It may be a good idea to pair this with globalredirect to prevent search engines from penalizing your site for duplicate content.)
  • Search 404: Replace the not-particularly-helpful file not found screen with a search for any keywords contained in the URL. (On very high traffic sites, too much of any Drupal 404 handling is to be avoided.)

Opensearch is another module that will probably have increasing use in improving the ability of people to find your content.

And Views of course is very useful.

Two little extras to make a new Drupal installation that extra little bit better (it's the Agaric way):

  • Put a robots.txt in root.
  • Put favicon.ico in root, even if it's already somewhere else or called something else.

And some contributed (third-party, non-Drupal-core) modules:

  • Pathauto: Banish node/# from your site with human and search-engine friendly URLs based on post titles. (It may be a good idea to pair this with globalredirect to prevent search engines from penalizing your site for duplicate content.)
  • Search 404: Replace the not-particularly-helpful file not found screen with a search for any keywords contained in the URL. (On very high traffic sites, too much of any Drupal 404 handling is to be avoided.)

Opensearch is another module that will probably have increasing use in improving the ability of people to find your content.

And Views of course is very useful.

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