Five more things to do on your Drupal website
There are always new things you can try when using Drupal to build your digital experiences, so here are some recommendations that go a step further than you standard inclusion. You do however want to make sure that your website contains all the elements needed to make your business visible including contact details and the location of the Office Space Bracknell way that you rent from http://officespacebracknell.co.uk. These recommendations are technical and may need the support of your web professional.
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Disable user accounts if you don’t use them
If you do not expect users to create an account to use your website, disable this function; if you don’t, you can end up with a long list of requests from anonymous spam users. If you require accounts, an experienced Drupal design agency will help you to develop ways to prevent spam by implementing anti-spam techniques such as Captcha.
Update core
It is especially important to update your site when there are security updates issued by the core maintainers; however, it is worth getting in the habit of scheduling time for regular maintenance updates so that you don’t end up having to do big updates of many version numbers all at once. This can be very difficult and will increase the risk of some functionality breaking.
Respect coding and security standards
When you are beginning as a Drupal developer, start right by learning the way you need to write, format and structure code to meet its coding standards.
Balance contrib and custom
If your site is huge, you may need to use a lot of contrib modules; however, you will need to make performance-related enhancements to balance for the load. Keep an eye on new modules released on the Drupal site.
You don’t need to write custom code that is already present in a contrib module, but you might want to be careful about which modules you use, what functionality they offer, and whether you need it all. You might be better of implementing your own custom code to do the one thing you want instead of using a contrib module that does 100 other things you don’t need.
The right module in the right folder
Best practice in organising modules on your site is that they are kept in the sites/all/ folder and that within this there are places for contrib modules in a folder called contrib/ and custom modules in a folder called custom/. If you use the features module, this will need a folder called features/, and so on for patched contrib modules.
