Usability

Yesterday I built out a quick Drupal site for a fairly non-technical client. He manages a busy team and doesn't have the time for me to train his staff on the intricacies of Drupal content administration. The project also has a shoestring budget, so I wanted to keep things as simple as possible. Below are a few Drupal modules and tricks that I used to cut down on Drupal admin interface clutter, and more importantly, to make the site bombproof to unexperienced Drupal content editors.

Site Configuration Permissions

http://drupal.org/project/config_perms

Personally, I love leveraging the "site information" admin screen in Drupal, and I hate that generally you can't expose this admin screen to Drupal admins w/o also exposing a lot of the more sensitive "guts" of Drupal. This module provides more granular site configuration permissions.