Before you start

We are looking at building a site that offers our community the ability to do a few things. Here is the checklist of items we are looking to achieve with our new site.

I have seen several references to beginners being better off starting with Drupal 5. Can that still be downloaded somewhere if you don't already have it.

thanks.

marc

I already use a Drupal system on one of my websites, I've had nor problems with it. Though, one vital feature which I should should have been included is some sort of WYSIWYG editor, like in wordpress. There is no way to modify your text when entering content, you cannot make it bold, change the size, colour, add images etc.

It appears to just simply allow basic text in. Of course, if you know the HTML code of by heart, then your lucky but otherwise it seems the only way to get these formatting features is by editing Dreamweaver and copying and pasting that code.

So after 3 days from absolute cold I have drupal5.7 running on a local xp box under xampp for study. I have managed to integrate gallery2 and a forum and have test users. So I know it works, albeit by trial & error. I'm still struggling conceptually with nodes etc and my sql knowledge is minimal.

Some questions as I need to upgrade an existing photo club site.

The club site is running on a linux server on a shared host (streamline) using standard html pages and phpbb3 & coppermine. Bit scrappy as I can't integrate the BB & coppermine (incompatible versions I found out afterwards) hence the look at Drupal.

1) I would like to instal drupal on the server without it taking control from my index.html front page so the existing site can work until I get the drupal one fully configured. Ideally Drupal should reside in my root folder (htdocs) not a sub folder but will this stop me using the original site whilst testing the new one. I understand that an upload folder should be above htdocs

2) Should I have just one sql database for the entire drupal setup or is it advisable to seperate out the gallery to another database?

3) Is there a tutorial/manual that describes the logical structure of Drupal so I can see how it all hangs together (nodes & blocks etc are a new concept).

Al I want is the TinyMCE editor. Do I have to install and run Drupal on the server?

I am trying to get a client on Drupal for a small subset of his website to start. The problem is, his website is running OOOOLD software:

Apache/1.3.41
PHP/4.3.10
mySQL/4.0.22

I have looked at the Drupal system requirements here:
http://drupal.org/requirements