The Drupal
module I chose to install is Administration Menu (https://www.drupal.org/project/admin_menu).
Administration Menu allows administrative users to see the menu structure of
Drupal by mousing over them instead of clicking through each section. This is
especially useful for novice users like me because I don’t have to remember
where each section/option is located, I can find it quickly by moving my mouse.
The Administration Menu module
doesn’t have any dependencies, so it was easy to install. I followed basically
the same instructions as installing any of the other modules in the Unit 5 Tech
Assignment. While I read about other classmates having more difficult
experiences with modules, my experience made me want to try more of them. I
know YouTube videos are prohibited from being added to our collections since
the links aren’t stable and there are attribution/authenticity issues, but
there is a module called Media: YouTube (https://www.drupal.org/project/media_youtube)
that I am interested in playing around with on my site in my spare time. I am
also interested in the Biblio module. I was disappointed to see that the site
with the sample biblio elements is no longer online.
Overall, I have enjoyed playing
around with Drupal. While the menu structure is a bit complex, the flexibility
of Drupal to host so many types of sites makes the menu system necessary. I am
looking forward to trying out DSpace and Omeka. I have played with Omeka a bit
in a Digital Humanities course last semester, and at this point I can’t decide
which CMS would be better for hosting my collection. I am very excited to be
able to add a line about experience with Drupal to my resume. Of course, I need
to be work more with Drupal to have any real facility with it.
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