Working with Modules

Setting up categories in Drupal is relatively easy. Set up your vocabulary (or category name) and add the terms. What happens when you are not sure what the terms are going to be? Wouldn't it be nice if you could add the term names on the fly? You can with Free Tagging enabled.

Renaming the path to be more friendly (friendly URLs) in the URL is generally good practice. It's good for the user and it's good for search engines. By default, Drupal uses it's own naming for the path... node... this is not good.

Drupal has a pretty robust comment system. You can set up basic commenting, threads, anonymous commenting, sorting of comments, and more all with the core Comment Module included in a basic Drupal installation.

Turning Comments on and Off

Where you install Drupal modules that you download has changed since 4.7. Prior to version 5, you'd install additional modules in the Modules folder. But since version 5 came out, the new practice is to install them in your sites folder. This is also where additional themes should be installed.

This keeps all your additional modules and themes in one folder and it keeps the core modules and themes separate. Now when you need to install an additional module and/or theme, you just need to put them in the sites folder.