This is a public service announcement for everyone who uses Microsoft Word, Frontpage, Expression or some other separate WYSIWYG editor to write your blog posts and then paste them onto JoeUser:

Don't do it.

These tools do their own special formatting, and all a lot of junk tags that don't play nice with the site (they didn't play nice with the old site either, but you didn't always notice since we weren't doing half the things we're trying to do on the new site.

The extra formatting breaks JoeUser, breaks our preview code, and will prevent us from featuring your work on the homepage of the site.  Programs like notepad, wordpad, Windows Live Writer etc will not insert the garbage code.  If you're not going to just type directly into the editor, we suggest programs like that to prepare your post before submitting.

Of course, you can continue to post like you always have, we won't block the articles or anything, just know that we won't be able to feature any article that has bad/broken html in it.

This concludes the public service announcement.