Setting Up The New Site

When I brought the site over to Drupal I initially concentrated on duplicating the look and feel of my original site. In order to accomplish this I ended up creating a new Drupal theme from scratch based on the original XHTML and CSS code. I then went and added content, duplicating the original structure of the site. I made heavy use of the Path module and enabled URL re-writing in order to keep the page addresses consistent with their static versions. This is important for search engine visibility.

I took great advantage of the modular nature of Drupal and added contributed modules to give me functionality as I needed it. Here is what I added so far and why:

Contributed Modules Added and Their Functions
FCKeditor Provides a convenient WYSIWYG editor.
 
IMCE Plays with FCKeditor to allow for simple uploading of images and seamless integration of images into content.
Nodewords Convenient and granular interface for creation of meta tags at the node level.
Google Analytics Interface for dynamically adding Google Analytics tracking code to nodes.
 Site Map  Automatically creates a site map page and adds links for RSS feeds.