Top 10 Drupal Modules

1. Administration menu

" Administration menu module provides a theme-independent administration interface (aka. navigation, back-end) for Drupal. It's a helper for novice Drupal users coming from other CMS, a real time-saver..."


2. Content Construction Kit (CCK)

"The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser. Drupal 7 and Fields in Core Most of CCK has moved to core in the Drupal 7 version. The D7 version of CCK contains..."


3. FCKeditor - WYSIWYG HTML editor

" WYSIWYG editor This module allows Drupal to replace textarea fields with the FCKeditor - a visual HTML editor, sometimes called WYSIWYG editor. This HTML text editor brings many of the powerful WYSIWYG..."


4. Views

"The Views module provides a flexible method for Drupal site designers to control how lists and tables of content (nodes in Views 1, almost anything in Views 2) are presented. Traditionally, Drupal has..."


5. Pathauto

" Description: The Pathauto module automatically generates path aliases for various kinds of content (nodes, categories, users) without requiring the user to manually specify the path alias. This allows..."


6. Backup and Migrate

"#D7CX: I pledge that Backup and Migrate will have a full Drupal 7 release on the day that Drupal 7 is released. Backup and Migrate simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database or..."


7. Token

" Tokens are small bits of text that can be placed into larger documents via simple placeholders, like %site-name or [user]. The Token module provides a central API for modules to use these tokens, and..."


8. Lightbox2

"The Lightbox2 module is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on most modern browsers. The module places images above your current page,..."


9. Webform

"This module adds a webform nodetype to your Drupal site. Typical uses for Webform are questionnaires, contact or request/register forms, surveys, polls or a front end to issues tracking systems. Submissions..."


10. CAPTCHA

" A CAPTCHA is a challenge-response test most often placed within web forms to determine whether the user is human. The purpose of CAPTCHA is to block form submissions by spambots, which are automated scripts..."

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Top 10 Websites for Free Joomla Templates

1.http://www.joomla24.com/

This is the Downloadbase for Joomla Templates. In collaboration with the biggest german Downloadbase "www.joomlaos.de" which offer more than 2200 Templates with live preview for Joomla.

2.http://www.siteground.com/
SiteGround web hosting company has the largest collection of free Joomla 1.5 and 1.0 templates with new releases every week!This offer free installation of Joomla 1.5 and Joomla 1.5 or 1.0 Templates with their professional Joomla 1.5 hosting services.

3.http://www.bestofjoomla.com/
Bestof joomla contains commercial,free as well as paid joomla templates.

4.http://www.joomlashack.com
Joomlashack also contains commercial,free as well as paid joomla templates.

5.http://joomlartwork.com
This site provide free Joomla templates as well. But it needs to registered in this site.

6.http://www.joomladesigns.co.uk

This site have developed a number of free joomla templates for Joomla 1.5 and 1.0 which you can download from here. You do not need to register to download the free joomla templates.

7.http://www.themza.com

Here you can see all free templates for Joomla, Wordpress, Moodle and 4Images offered on our website. They are all available in .ZIP format. For more information on how you can make use of these free cms templates for your personal or business blog, forum, cms or photo gallery website.

8.http://www.themebase.com

Free Joomla, WordPress, phpBB, vBulleting, XOOPS, PHPNuke,templates

9.http://www.themebot.com

Preview and download free Joomla templates to use on your website. All module positions are published in the Themebot demos. Because the Joomla templates in the Themebot demos are all running on a single Joomla installation, there may be minor display issues on some templates. To see a template in it's full glory, please also check the template details for the author's demo or website.

10.http://www.kangainternet.com.au

Kanga give you a ton of free joomla templates to use on your websites. This have a wide variety so please browse, choose and download as many as you would like. The Joomla templates here provided totally free and without charge. Download them and take full advantage.

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Top Ten Joomla Extensions

We have been using Joomla on a daily basis since its beginning, we have compiled a list of our top ten Joomla extensions (Components, Modules, Mambots and Plugins) which have been tested and proven. These will add substantial functionality to your Joomla CMS Website, download them and judge it for yourself!

1. Community Builder Community Builder suite (CB) extends the Joomla! user management system. Key features: extra fields in profile, enhanced registration workflows, user lists, connection paths between users, admin defined tabs and user profiles, image upload, front-end workflow management, integration with other components, like PMS, Newsletter, Forum, Galleries. Release 1.1 is compatible with all Joomla! 1.0.x (including 1.0.15) and Mambo 4.5.2-4.6.4. New CB version 1.2 RC brings Joomla 1.5 native compatibility (and keeping Joomla 1.0.x and Mambo 4.5.2-4.6.4 native compatibility), multi-criteria user searches, full field controls of core fields, ajax email and username checkers, new lost username/password form and many more features and fixes. note: This extension requires registration to download.

2. JCE An advanced, configurable WYSIWYG editor for Joomla! based on Moxiecode's TinyMCE. Includes advanced Image/Media and File handling, plugin support, and an Administration interface for editor configuration. note: This extension requires registration to download.

3. sh404SEF sh404SEF rewrites Joomla URL to a more user-friendly format (SEF URL or URL rewriting): mysite.com/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=69&id=34... becomes mysite.com/en/sh404SEF-and-url-rewriting/list-of-available-plugins.html). It is also a security component and manages title and meta tags : automatic tags, or manual for every page. It works with or without .htaccess file. Fully Joomfish compatible. Caching system for high speed and very small DB queries overhead. Support many components natively but uses also sef_ext from OpenSEF/SEF Advanced. VirtueMart, Fireboard, Community Builder, mosetsTree, HotProperty, Sobi2, Docman, myBlog, iJoomla Magazine,News Portal, Remository and more supported natively. SSL switch, automatic 301 redirection from non-sef to sef and from Joomla SEF to sh404SEF, insert Google news style numerical ID,.. Many backend parameters to control URL construction behavior.

4. JoomlaPack JoomlaPack is an open-source backup component for the Joomla! CMS, quite a bit different than its competition. Its mission is simple: create a site backup that can be restored on any Joomla!-capable server. It creates a full backup of your site in a single ZIP archive. The archive contains all the files, a database snapshot and an installer derived from the standard Joomla! installer. The backup and restore process is AJAX powered to avoid server timeouts, even with huge sites. Alternatively, you can make a backup of only your database. If you want a reliable, easy to use, open source backup solution for your Joomla! site

5. VirtueMart The complete e-Commerce shopping cart solution for Joomla! - used by thousands of store owners. It can be run in Store- and Catalog-Mode. With its powerful Administration Tool you can handle an unlimited Number of Categories, Products, Orders, Discounts, Shopper Groups and Customers.

6. JEvents This project brings the well known and loved Events Calendar to Joomla. JEvents consists of a Joomfish compatible Joomla component and a number of modules and mambots. Component * One-off Events and complex repeating patterns of events can be created and viewed in an attractive calendar and a variety of list formats. * Events can be categorised and calendar views can be customised to show all or some of these categories Modules * Mini-calendar module (events_cal) which gives a quick overview of events which can be placed on any page * Latest events modue (events_latest) which gives a highly configurable summary of upcoming events * Events legend (events_legend) - displayed alongside the component gives you a summary of event categories and an easy way to limit the events shown to specific categories Mambots/Plugin * A search mambot/plugin that enables the global Joomla search to return results from the events calendar * Post event report feedback that allows event reports or photo gallery links to be shown in the event detail after a set date

7. AllVideos AllVideos (by JoomlaWorks) is truely the all-in-one media management solution for Joomla!. You can use the plugin to easily embed videos hosted on popular services like YouTube, Metacafe, Vimeo (and many more) inside your Joomla! articles (content items). Additionally, it allows you to playback almost any video/audio filetype directly from your server or a remote server, giving you the competitive edge when it comes to rich media content.

8. Joom!Fish The Joom!Fish project is your add-on for managing multilingual content within the content management system Joomla!. The project, which was formally known as MambelFish is rewritten and enhanced in order to be compatible with the new versions of the Joomla! project. The Joom!Fish is an add-on component for Joomla! which allows you to maintain and organize your manual translated content in your Joomla! database. Check out our website for more details about the features and possibilities. The new version Joom!Fish 2.0 incorporate natively with Joomla! 1.5 and allows you to manage your translations now also within the new Joomla! Framework.

9. FireBoard Forum (JED no longer offers or endorses Fireboard) FireBoard is fully integrated forum solution for Joomla!/Mambo which requires no bridges or hacking core files. It can be easily installed like any other component. note:FireBoard is compatible with joomla 1.5 in legacy mode. !!Update!! Kunena Forum (Replacing Fireboard) Kunena, translated from Swahili meaning "to speak", arose out of a fork of the former Fireboard forum with a new team and some of the previous developers, including several Joomla core developers.

10. JoomlaXplorer joomlaXplorer is a File- and FTP - Manager. It allows you to edit files, delete, copy, rename, archive and unpack files/directories directly on your server. You can - Browse Directories & Files - Edit, Copy, Move and Delete files - Search, Upload and Downloading files - Create new files and directories - Change file permissions (chmod) and much more This script is based on QuiXplorer 2.3.1

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