Framework is a blank canvas for Drupal theme developers adapted from Framework and HTML5 Boilerplate.
These are some modules that I probably couldn't live without.
- Address Field, Geocoder & Geofield for location-based content
- Auto Assign Role for assigning user roles
- Calendar for displaying time-oriented content
- Content Access for restricting content based on user roles
- Date for any time-oriented content
- Devel for inspecting PHP objects
- Disable Term Node Listings because Views are better
- Disqus for awesome commenting
- DraggableViews & Entity for rearranging views
- Email for simple email fields
- Generate Password for manually signing up users
- Imagefield Crop for images
- LESS Preprocessor for writing beautiful CSS
- Link for full-proof URLs
- MailChimp for awesome email newsletters
- Pathauto & Token for clean URLs
- Tab Tamer for managing tabs
- Views & Chaos Tools for almost everything
- Webform for making surveys
- Wysiwyg with CKEditor for content creation
- XML sitemap for SEO shenanigans