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Modules help websites manage content, users and other items. Lets go over a few modules you could enable at /admin/modules.

I suggest you turn on these core modules. Core modules are installed by default.

• Contact If you would like visitors to have the ability to contact your, enable this one.
• Statistics Cool to discover how many times a story or page is read.
• Search Enables users to search through your website.

The following modules need to be installed, they are third party modules. If you have access to the filesystem of your Drupal installation, install third party modules in sites/all/modules. (Not in modules, this makes upgrading to a newer release of Drupal difficult.)

• Image When you would like to be able to upload images, install and enable this one.
• Google Analytics To track what users came from where and so on, enable this one. You also need a Google Analytics account when you would like to use this module.
• Search 404 When users type a URL directly, like http://example.com/about, but that page does not exits, Drupal sends that /about to the search module, which searches for "about" in all nodes. This module makes finding things, especially after migrating from another
• Update Status This can display when modules are out of date or when a new Drupal release is available.
• Captcha Have you ever seen those images that show somewhat scrambled text that you have to type in? That proves you are human, and can proceed with commenting, registering, etc. This module keeps (comment) spam from your website.
• XML Sitemap Good for search engines to help them get a clue about what is important on your website. This module makes a list of all content on your website, so search engines know what is available.
• Global Redirect When users visit a page within your website, like node/1 and there is a URL alias, users are redirected to that URL alias. Good for search engines, because if concentrates users to one page.