Where to upload Modules & Themes

I don't want to stuff up my main site while I'm learning Drupal, I want the new site to be clean, contain no modules that are buggy, and have everything in the right place because the new site is going to be massive, with the intention of having millions of visitors and hundreds of thousands of members, so if I "stuff it up", it could get expensive if I have to start-over.

So I am using one of my test sites How To Train Your Cat as my mistake-bed, as it can be easily deleted.

The first thing I learnt while using the test site on my local computer (using XAMPP) to install Apache, MySQL & PHP, is that I had been uploading Modules & Themes to the wrong directory - I hadn't read the documentation and had been mixing them with the core modules & themes, apparantly not a great idea.

So all the custom modules & themes need to be uploaded to the "Sites" -> "All" directory, and when I do the main site, need to make sure I create folders to categorize them ie:

Advertising_Modules
Comments_Chat_Modules
Content_Views_Modules
Events_OG_Groups_Modules
Images_Gallery_Modules
Location_Modules
Node_Modules
Payment_Modules
Profile_Modules
SEO_Modules
Server_Background_Modules
Site_Presentation_Modules
Site_Testing_Modules
User_Admin_Modules
etc.

The modules are still found by Drupal when you categorize them, and when you're looking at hundreds of modules, this would've been a godsend. Will do this on the main site.

This video shows you where you should install Drupal Module, from YouTube member: danwassink. He has more videos at: www.drupaldude.com




This video you will see how to install a new theme, from YouTube member: SeoeCom