mhatch

We’re moving from Sharepoint to WordPress platform. Constant Contact newsletters were posted by copying the html from the newsletter and pasting into a new page on the Sharepoint site (with a few edits in Dreamweaver). It turned out great, just like our newsletter regularly looks when sent via email. (https://familysupportclearinghouse.org/Newsletters/Pages/August2010.aspx).

When I take this same html and transfer to a page in WP (as suggested above) the formatting gets messed up: different font types, sizes and colors, the images aren’t visible, and other issues. (https://www.familysupportclearinghouse.org/Newsletters/Documents/ConstantContactKINewsWP.pdf). How do I make the newsletter appear correctly?

I’m using WP 3.0. Our web developers told us to use Microsoft Notepad instead of WP text editor/paste and WP Word editor/paste b/c even the WP editor tools might preserve old formatting. Is this true? So far it’s a pain to use Notepad.

When I copy and paste text from Notepad the plain text appears in a small font (formatthen right below it, the same text appears again but in slightly bigger font (the same font as WP “paragraph” formatting for WP).

I have to delete 2nd version of the text (the bigger font), but then I notice that the 1st version needs to be in “paragraph” format (My assumption is that it must be “paragraph” so that it translate to my website CSS. Is this correct?). When I change the text it increases to the same size as the 2nd version of the text I’d just deleted. So what’s the point of using Notepad, I say.

Main question: can I rely on WP text paste to remove all outside formatting?