As much as I like working with HTML, it is horribly inconvenient to author my stories/blog entries with; especially when all you get is a tiny little text box to work it. You can't indent and you can't see the line numbers. So I started looking for a WYSIWYG editor that would plug right into Drupal.

During my research to find a CMS, I had read a few entries mentioning TinyMCE.
So I did some further research and it was the WYSIWYG editor of choice for most people on the Drupal forums.

I just dropped the TinyMCE module into SmartFTP, enabled it, added a
profile, and I was ready to go.
It came with an option to to boost the performance of TinyMCE, download
the "TinyMCE compressor".

When it came to installing the TinyMCE compressor (GZip), I hit a bit of a snag. The GZip
compressor for TinyMCE was asking me to edit the script tag in the file
that will be using the GZip... With Drupal, there isn't one particular
file that I can just edit to make this change. For this, I did a quick
search on Drupal.org forums... and there were a couple of answers to this exact problem. The Drupal community had created a .patch file which would fix this issue.

Now, I come from the Windows world, and had no idea what a patch was,
what it did, and how to use the patch. But after hours and hours of
researching and trying different things, I just wasn't able to patch
the files. It's a shame because the instructions looked promissing, but
they weren't compelte enough for a person who is new to patching. Also, there were a lot of poeple having problems with this, and a million different things people did to get it to work; but they all varied according to their Drupal/LAMP installation.

It also had some instructions on how ot install an AJAx spell checker, but again, same problem, where I couldn't get it to work. I had all the requirements, but I kept getting an XML error.

The Readme.txt and Install.txt, were easy to follow. It gave me extra information
regarding the GZip compressor, as well as how to drop in a spellchecker but that's where things came to a halt.

I will continue trying to get the GZip working, as well as a spell checker, because those are two functionalities that I would really love to have.