Drupal

As is pretty obvious, this site is managed with the free CMS Drupal. Drupal allows the use of a number of modules, so I've made some notes here which may be useful to other site admins who are just getting started.

Interface Modules

One of the main goals for noblekale.com was to always ensure that it is mobile phone compatible - specifically, that it worked with my particular phone (a hiptop slide, FWIW). Luckily enough, whilst it's not something that comes automatically with Drupal's base install, this can be administered easily. Drupal's module database features a particularly useful mobile phone interface module. I've written a guide - Setting up mobile phone access on your Drupal install.

User Avatars - Using Gravatars

I've implemented the Gravatar module for Drupal to do the hard work on this one. Here's a tutorial for using Gravatars with Drupal

Advertising Modules

Since most sites use adverts to generate income, it's important to ensure compatibility with the advertising network banner code you are provided. I use Google's Adsense network (no, it hasn't made me anything yet). I've implemented the Adsense module for Drupal on this Drupal install, and it did not require much tweaking. I've used the 'add an Adsense specific block' technique - in this useful guide to using drupal and the Adsense module.

Backup Tasks

Thorn has a good description on how to set this up: Backing up Drupal database