Tips for making administration of Drupal site easier

Question

I'm creating a Drupal site for a client, and I'd like to make administrating the site as easy as possible for them.

Examples of what they'd want to do with the site is:

• Add/Edit/Remove content which will be displayed on various pages
• Manage a forum - Just the basic Drupal Forum module
  • Add / Ban Users
• Respond to comments left using the webforum

I see there is an Admin module, that looks pretty promising. But I was wondering if anyone has any other helpful tips.

Thanks

Answer 1

Firstly, what people have found useful is the Administration menu module.

Secondly, it's the Edit and View tabs on top of the content for signed in users. If you're using a custom template, you could just use the <?php print $tabs ?> just before you are printing the content in page.tpl.php.

UX is probably something that can be fine-tuned forever and surely guys will have a lot more advice coming for you here, but these 2 have been the most important lifesavers for me.