Drupal is quickly becoming a main stream in Content Management Systems, the possibilities are endless. Strikingidea.com is built utilizing this tool and we would like to share our favorite Drupal modules that are utilized to make our site top-notch.
Admin
http://drupal.org/project/admin
The admin module provides UI improvements to the standard Drupal admin interface.
Administration menu
http://drupal.org/project/admin_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 for Drupal site administrators, and definitely a must for Drupal developers and site builders
Administration Theme
http://drupal.org/project/admin_theme
Drupal allows you to define a different theme for administration pages (Administer -> Site configuration -> Administration theme). By default this only applies to pages with a path starting with 'admin' and content editing pages.
Backup and Migrate
http://drupal.org/project/backup_migrate
Backup and Migrate simplifies the task of backing up and restoring your Drupal database or copying your database from one Drupal site to another. It supports gzip, bzip and zip compression as well as automatic scheduled backups.
Content Construction Kit (CCK)
http://drupal.org/project/cck
The Content Construction Kit allows you to add custom fields to nodes using a web browser.
CKEditor
http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor
This module will allow Drupal to replace textarea fields with the CKEditor - a visual HTML editor, sometimes called WYSIWYG editor.
CKEditor Link
http://drupal.org/project/ckeditor_link
This module currently allows to easily create links to Drupal nodes through CKEditor's Link button and dialog.
Context
http://drupal.org/project/context
Context allows you to manage contextual conditions and reactions for different portions of your site. You can think of each context as representing a "section" of your site. For each context, you can choose the conditions that trigger this context to be active and choose different aspects of Drupal that should react to this active context.
Cufon
http://drupal.org/project/cufon
The Cufon module adds integration with the Cufón Javascript library to Drupal. Cufón performs text replacement on web pages, using the canvas element and VML to render fancy typefaces.
IMCE
http://drupal.org/project/imce
IMCE is an image/file uploader and browser that supports personal directories and quota.
Image Cache
http://drupal.org/project/imagecache
mageCache allows you to setup presets for image processing. If an ImageCache derivative doesn't exist the web server's rewrite rules will pass the request to Drupal which in turn hands it off to ImageCache to dynamically generate the file.
Linkit
http://drupal.org/project/linkit
Linkit provides an easy interface for internal linking. Linkit links to nodes, users, views and terms by default, using an autocomplete field. Linkit has two major advantages over traditional linking
Module Filter
http://drupal.org/project/module_filter
The modules list page can become quite big when dealing with a fairly large site or even just a dev site meant for testing new and various modules being considered. What this module aims to accomplish is the ability to quickly find the module you are looking for without having to rely on the browsers search feature which more times than not shows you the module name in the 'Required by' or 'Depends on' sections of the various modules or even some other location on the page like a menu item.
Panels
http://drupal.org/project/panels
The Panels module allows a site administrator to create customized layouts for multiple uses. At its core it is a drag and drop content manager that lets you visually design a layout and place content within that layout. Integration with other systems allows you to create nodes that use this, landing pages that use this, and even override system pages such as taxonomy and the node page so that you can customize the layout of your site with very fine grained permissions.
Pathauto
http://drupal.org/project/pathauto
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.
Quick Tabs
http://drupal.org/project/quicktabs
The Quick Tabs module allows you to create blocks of tabbed content, specifically views, blocks, nodes* and other quicktabs*. You can create a block on your site containing multiple tabs with corresponding content. Clicking on the tabs makes the corresponding content display instantly, using jQuery.
Views
http://drupal.org/project/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 hard-coded most of this, particularly in how taxonomy and tracker lists are formatted.
Views Slideshow
http://drupal.org/project/views_slideshow
Views Slideshow can be used to create a slideshow of any content (not just images) that can appear in a View. Powered by jQuery, it is heavily customizable: you may choose slideshow settings for each View you create.
Web Form
http://drupal.org/project/webform
This module adds a webform node type 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.