Drupal Modules: Rank, Rate, Review at DrupalModules.com

I usually don’t get all gooey and gushy when I write up a website, but this is one I like a lot: DrupalModules.com built by John Forsythe.

DrupalModules.com does a great job of taking the list of Drupal Module (which was nothing more than a raw information dump on the Drupal site) and wrapping it with a smattering of practical community features and thereby turning it into an extremely useful resource for Drupal developers.

It’s not only the site itself that shines, the people that use it are doing a bang-up job with the information they are contributing. The reviews are generally well written, they give examples of how people have used the modules in real life to solve problems and they link to other off site resources (examples of the module in action, tutorials) that help clarify what the module can do and how it does it.

In comparison, Drupal.org lists the modules and has a short blurb–usually written by the maintainer who, even though he knows the module the best, often does a terrible job explaining the modules capabilities and uses. Lots of data, not much information.

DrupalModules.com is a big step forward.

By the way, John has also developed a nifty search engine for sifting through the Drupal code base appropriately called DrupalCodeSearch.com.