Modules

As with my Themes implementation, you don't need to add on modules for your Drupal site to work.
However I came across many suggestions of 'vital' modules, with suggestions that these are so useful that they should really be part of Drupal's core set of modules.

Well I have implemented a few of these, in the order as follows. They work (for me) and I find the above suggestions to be true. So you can follow along and implement these if you like.

Note that all of these are contributed modules. A full list of contributed Drupal modules can be viewed at: drupal.org/project/Modules

Very Useful Modules for Everyone

Note: For my multi-site Drupals, I have installed all these modules in the /sites/all/modules/ folder as I want each of the sites to be able to have and use these modules.

A useful piece of documentation relating to how the folders for a multi-site should be set up can be found at www.drupal.org/node/53705

Contributed Modules in order of Installation

• 'global redirect' ver6.x-1.2
• 'nodewords' ver 6.x-1.0
• 'token' ver 6.x-1.11 (which is needed by some contributed modules below)
• 'page-title' ver 6.x-2.0 (requires the 'token' module)
• 'pathauto' ver 6.x-1.1(requires the 'token' module and that the core module 'path' is enabled)

Modules that I think will be Useful to me

Not sure if you will need/want these but I did. These were installed after the ones above.

In order of Installation

• 'views' ver 6.x-2.3 (which says that it needs the 'advanced help' module to provide better help files)
• 'advanced help' ver 6.2-1.1
• 'quotes' ver 6.x-1.30

More explanation of these modules can be found on the download pages on Drupal.