Drupal From Scratch: New Site Checklist

• Set the Admin theme
• Seven comes installed with Drupal 7
• Rubrik is nice but has one bug that doesn’t show view replacement patterns
• Set the site email address to your preferred administration email
• admin/config/system/site-information
• Before Creating any content (fake or otherwise)
• Create content types
• !!! Warning: once content has been entered, content types cannot be changed without damaging data
• Turn on and configure path aliases with pathauto module
• Turn on clean urls
• Create text formats for user roles
• admin/config/content/formats
• Set up WYSIWYG editors if needed
• Create image style settings
• admin/config/media/image-styles
• Create a 2nd admin account (Thanks to commenter Nik for this one)

What's your process for setting up a new Drupal site? Let us know in comments if you think we missed anything.