Content Construction Kit (CCK) gives you more control of a new content type. By default, Drupal will allow you to create new content type. This feature makes Drupal very flexible, and CCK adds more power to it. To understand CCK, let us say your site contains blog, story, and pages. Now you want to create a product list, the list contains a picture, price, description, etc. Although there are many ways to accomplish this, let us say we want to accomplish this with the use of CCK. All we need to do is to create a new content type and add fields to it. Your field maybe one or more of the following; picture, price, description, etc.

Written by merlinofchaos, Views module of Drupal is one of the modules with high usage statistics. Many Drupal developer said that Drupal is not Drupal without Views and CCK modules. I can say that they are correct. In my previous post, I mentioned slightly what Views can do in your Drupal powered site.

I found Drupal very light weight when used for a single-user blog. When properly configured, you will have fast loading blog. The default installation of Drupal is actually enough to handle your blog but to gain more control, we are going to tweak it a little so that Drupal will behave like a normal blog. This post will assume that you have a fresh installed Drupal site. If you want to know how to install Drupal, refer to my previous post, How to Install Drupal CMS to Your Server.

This discussion will cover the following: core modules to install, contributed modules to install, using the Taxonomy module, and harnessing the power of Views.

The following is a list of must-have modules for a Drupal powered websites. It doesn't matter what type of site you are running. May it be a blog, a picture gallery, video gallery, online magazine, intranet and corporate websites, e-commerce website, educational site, government websites, a forum, community portal, a technical site, news publishing, art gallery, directories, conference room, you name it. I may say, don't go with your site live without these modules installed enabled and properly configured.