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To have WYSIWYG editing in Drupal you have to install either FCKEditor or TinyMCE (htmlarea is, apparantly, no longer supported). Since I've used FCKEditor in the past I started with that. But it seems incredibly slow!

So I tried out TinyMCE insead but found that NONE of the pop-up based features worked under Firefox. They worked fine under Internet Explorer!

I tried disabling all the pop-up blockers under Firefox... no joy 

These are my notes on the steps you need to take to create a basic website based on Drupal (4.6).

It presumes you already have a domain name registrar (I use www.godaddy.com), somewhere to host the website that already has Apache, MySQL, PHP and Drupal installed (I have my own Virtual Private Server on spry.com) and access to a name server (I run Apache).

First is to register the domain name (I'll be using example.com in this example!)

Then give your name server the details of this new domain. In my case I use bind (9) as my nameserver so I update named.conf to add:

zone "example.com" {
     type master;
     file "example.com";
};

Then create the file with the domain details in it:

 $ORIGIN  example.com.
 $TTL     86400
          IN        SOA      ns.example.com. root.example.com. (
            2006011001      ; Serial
            10800           ; Refresh
            3600            ; Retry
            604800          ; Expire
            86400     )     ; Minimum 
          IN        NS      ns.example.com.
          IN        NS      ns2.example.com.
          IN        MX 10   mail.example.com.
          IN        MX 20   mail2.example.com.
          IN        A       1.2.3.4
www       IN        A       1.2.3.4
mail      IN        A       1.2.3.4 

A coupl of hints. For the value for the serial field I the date as YYYYMMDD + VV, the version on that day. Also the third last line give the domain name an address. This means users could type "http://example.com" as a valid website address. Of course this would require extra settings in both the nameserver and webserver. This will be covered in a future article.

Over the last few months I've been playing a lot with my Nokia 6680. My favourite software add-on to it is the excellent TomTom Mobile.

I was lucky enough to borrow a friends copy when they had to go and work in the US.  Sadly, for him, TomTom Mobile does not have US maps. Good for me though!

To provide GPS data I use a Fortuna Clip-on GPS receiver. This chats with the phone using Bluetooth so less cabling needed. The Fortuna is useful in that it has an socket for an external antenna so I installed mine in the glovebox and put an antenna on the dashboard. This makes the car look a lot neater.

Here at LMMRtech we are fairly new to Drupal, the CMS. In the past we have worked with Typo3, Mambo/Joomla, and even a small CMS we developed in-house. Drupal is very different. It puts content first and foremost.

This approach is one of the great strengths of Drupal. It is also, perhaps, its most confusing feature.

For example. Think of a simple "brochure" website.  A few static pages, perhaps arranged in a heirarchy. Although this can be done in Drupal it is nowhere near as easy as it would be in other sites. Because most CMS packages think in terms of pages  and folders. A simple site is just the default folder and some pages in it. Great for a tiny little site. But quickly the limitations show when sites get large. Folder help a lot but they fail too because it is hard to have one page in several folders.

Here at LMMRtech we have been successful in our hands on personalised Search Engine Optimisation. Working closely with a few the owners of the site we have raised their Google (and MSN, Yahoo, ...) ratings from low in 70's to 1st place for the chosen queries.

We then closely monitor their ratings, rankings, site logs and Google Sitemaps to ensure they remain at the top.

These are links to the websites of friends and companies that I've worked at. I am lucky to say that a lot of the time I'm working with friends at those companies!

Gillian Greenwood Pilates in London. Gillian is a close personal friend and an excellent Pilates teacher. She teaches both private clients and group classes in West London.