Talk:William Ballak/@comment-4536066-20120912164452/@comment-4536066-20120913024933

A word of advice (to everyone, not just you):

Never copy and paste text out of any program or website that has formatting on its text straight into the wiki. To clarify, I'm using formatting to mean that the page applies any  specific size, font, spacing, color, background color, italicism, anything - and that's pretty much every web page you've ever been on that looked nice at all. When you paste it into the wiki editor, it preserves some of the settings from where it was before, and you have to go into the source code to clean it out. That is, it gets tagged up with some messy formatting that looks like this...

"< span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'lucidagrande',tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:14px;"> "

To get around this, copy your text and paste it into one of those totally bare bones text editing programs like Notepad or Wordpad or whatever equivalent Macs have that you haven't used since first grade. These programs only process the raw text, so when you then re-copy it from this basic program, all the weird formatting is gone and it pastes into the wiki nice and clean as if you had typed straight in by yourself.

...maybe I should make a blog about this.