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The default Drupal login box is…well…big.

This article explains how to create a logical hierarchy of pages in Drupal, reflected in the navigation breadcrumb, which allows users to easily find their way around your site.

By default, Drupal displays only article teasers on the front page. This article describes how to create a custom view to display the full node text instead.

While Drupal has fully integrated RSS feeds, I prefer using Google’s FeedBurner service for its additional features and services. This article discusses how to connect the two (it’s easy).

Drupal has taken RSS integration to heart, with feeds automatically provided for every category, every view, forum containers—just about every list of any type has an associated RSS feed. While power users may appreciate this granularity, I personally find the multitude of feeds in an out-of-the-box Drupal site confusing. I prefer to make it simple: one feed for the entire site, plus an additional feed for each discussion forum. Read on to see how to do this Drupal.

Google Analytics is a free website traffic analyzer. You feed it data by embedding a small bit of Javascript into all of your website pages; information about each hit is fed back to Google, where it is packaged up into a dizzying array of statistics and reports. This article describes how to integrate it with your Drupal site to help monitor your traffic and generate more.

Sitemaps are XML files that describe the contents of your website, including the URL of every public page, when that page was last modified, and how often it should be reindexed. This information is used by search engines to index your website more intelligently, and to make sure that no pages are missed. This article describes how to create and register sitemaps for your Drupal website.