I am still relatively new to dotnetuke.  I like the functionality and the community has been very helpful.  In fact I'd like to thank everyone who has helped me learn along the way.  Right now I'm having trouble feeling comfortable buying modules.  There are a lot out there, and I've been a bit burned (well disapointed) in one module package.  I won't mention who because the problem is more one of preference than their modules causing problems or not working.  The main thing is I want to know what modules people are using that they use in almost every project they do.  There are a lot of module types that will get used over and over by a site developer (forum, content rotator, rss, etc, shopping carts etc).  I'd like to hear from the community what modules they use everyday and like using, it doesn't have to be the biggest guy in the market or even the most full featured, just those solid modules that you keep going back to, the ones with good support and that always seem to do what they are supposed to.  If this information is somewhere else on the site I'm sorry, it just seems to me that many people out there (esp those of us new to dnn) could use guidence in picking modules, not just how to pick them, but learn the reputation of the modules out there a bit better and easier.  I've seen a couple sites that review modules but most of them only have a few and they are the modules everyone already knows a lot about. 

Thanks

If you search the forums, I had a thread on this some months back.  Lately, I find that I am always using these:

Ventrian.com - NewsArticles, ChildLinks
Iowacomputergurus.com - Expandable HTML
Snapsis.com - Pageblaster

I use but not always:

XMod
House Menu
OnyakTech EmailIt
Ventrian ContentRotator
Locopon's MMLinks
Bring2Mind's Questionaire
Active Modules' Active Forums

I'm actually getting away from third party modules the more developed the core modules become.  The core documents module is now my choice, UDT is replacing a number of things I used to do with XMod and I'm using the Events module instead of XMod for sites lately.  On the other hand, the Forums, FAQ and Blog aren't there for DNN, so Active Forums, Expandable Text and Ventrian's News Articles replace those.  I even rarely use the House Menu anymore.

The other trend for me is I'm changing my expectations in what I need in a web site.  I still don't use DNN when the need is for a Web 2.0 site (why do clients want that even when they have no clue what it means?).  But I may start using DNN for this, either with home-grown modules or when some of the other modules become more mature.  I don't do sites that are Youtube/MySpace/Flickr clones because I don't see the point.  The only ones who seem to want those aren't good clients, usually kids who never pay or lose interest.  For corproate intranets, I suggest they use those services if that's what they want.

Hope it helps...

Jeff

I do mostly web apps vs websites so I use:

The core text/html module is something I use a lot for many different things. There are many plug-ins for the FCKeditor such as image editing, image maps, code highlighting, spell checking, etc.