Last night I have committed the patch in Local Menu module to exclude particular menu. Thanks Bartezz to share the patch. Now admin can specify which menu to exclude from the Local Menu block. Hopefully users will like this new feature in Local Menu module.

Following are the list of items that I always follow after installing a new Drupal site. Please put some comments if I need to add some other points here or if you are doing it differently.

1. Install Administration menu module.

Administration menu module provides an easy and time saving way to navigate to your site. This is a very helpful module to all drupal developers and administrators. The module renders all administrative menu items below 'administer' in a clean, attractive and purely CSS-based menu at the top of your website.

How to theme user login form in a drupal site? Let's say, we need to alter the descriptions in user login form. Following eaxmple will add new description to the title and password fields:

1. Add the following function in templete.php file. This function is used to register theme implementation of user module. You can find more on this in this url http://api.drupal.org/api/function/hook_theme/6.