To put aside the rant from a moment, you actually write the web page content using a built in HTML editor called TinyMCE. It is tiny yet annoying. It is so rudimentary it does not even support tables. I recommend you add on a plug-in such as:
TinyMCE Advanced http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/faq/ This one works. Several other oxymoronic plug-ins such as "Ultimate TinyMCE" and "Simple TinyMCE" do not work. At least, not if you follow directions. There is probably something you are supposed to know but don't. Modern software is predicated on knowing the secret handshake. You can write the text with any HTML editor, transfer it to the TinyMCE screen in HTML mode, and then have TinyMCE Advanced execute the "Cleanup Messy Code" function. This straightens out stuff and replaces "depreciated" code such as <i . . . and <u . . . with the approved modern version. All of this stuff is crowd-sourced. The procedures, documentation and instructions are full of idiosyncratic stuff and comments such as: "This widget has been deprecated, and will eventually be removed. DO NOT use it. You have been warned." It is charming in a way. It reminds me of the early days of microcomputer software. I guess there is no way you could address so many different market segments and applications without free-form crowd-sourcing, a la Linux and . . . [shudder] Wikipedia. - Jed
