About 5 months ago I was worried when the department I was working with in NYC was getting ready to migrate sites from Drupal 5 to Drupal 6. I had started working with Drupal during the late 4.6 days but wasn't really a developer until a few months into Drupal 5. Even then I was making beginner mistakes of hackng modules (but not core) to get my desired results.

Fast Forward 1 year and a few months, after hours of reading other people code, blog post, going to DrupalCamps, DrupalCons, and Lullabot trainings, I finally feel comfortable developing in Drupal 5. Of course this is all in relativity, you have modules like Views and Panels which remind you there is so much more to learn.

So my roommate introduced me to a site Stuff White People Like that I originally found offensive, but after reviewing it I found it quite humorous. My negative responses are in red, neutral responses in orange, and agreed responses in green, surprisingly there are many agreed, does that make me white?

Stuff White People Like

• #112 Hummus
• #111 Pea Coats

MothersClick.com, a social networking site for mother's, is looking for a user friendly yet fully functional and configurable WYSIWYG ("What You See Is What You Get") editor. So I spent a few days installing all available Drupal 5 WYSIWYG editors on my local machine. Each editor was setup on it's own fresh installation of Drupal 5.11. The default theme was Garland and then the top 3 editors wered later tested in a development environment for MothersClick.com.

Installation

Fairly simple. Drop in both the Yahoo YUI and YUI Rich Text Editor modules and enable them.

Configuration

Single page configuration. Checkboxes to enable simple or advanced, toggle to plain text editor.

Usability

Probably the most user friendly interface.

Clean Output

From what I have seen thus far the markup is very clean. It has an option to use XHTML instead of old school HTML which still uses degraded tags.

Installation

Fairly simple. Drop in the module. Download the TinyMCE editor from publisher site and drop entire folder into tinymce folder making sure it's named “tinymce”. Enable TinyMCE module.

Configuration

There's a lot of settings so I can see how configuration could feel confusing or overwhelming. Luckily, once you click through the options it becomes more clear as to what all these configuration settings do. Many of the options are checkboxes that will add or remove buttons from the toolbar or enable or disable plugins for the editor.