Beta Test Update

What we've learned so far from the beta testing:

• We've identified and cleaned up some funky formatting problems.
• We're replaced the use of <br clear>  with [br clear] as that was going to cause problems down the road.  The system will automatically convert these on the fly if you're editing an older page that uses the angle brackets
• We've identified a problem with  pages where folks used <ul> without any <li> tags.  This isn't legit html, but with the old tools it gave an indent so people have used it in various places. Unfortunately the new tools recognize this as bad html and thrown away everything between <ul>'s that isn't proceeded by  <li>.  So if you're editing an old page that has content in an <ul> without any <li> all that content will be lost if you save it in the wysiwyg tool.   
  
  The correct tag to use if you just want some text indented is <blockquote>  (with a </blockquote> at the end).  Long term this won't be a problem as the wysiwyg interface doesn't allow you to create stuff formatted incorrectly.  But in the near term be careful when editing older pages.  If they contain the some indented content created with <ul>'s then you'll want to convert them to blockquotes before saving.  It's safest to do this outside the beta interface so you can be sure what's happening.
• On a related note it's important to note that it's still useful to keep a window open (and frequently refreshed) with a view onto the page you're editing.  That way you can tell if the wysiwyg tool is cleaning things in an inappropriate way before things have gotten too bad.  Eventually once we get the kinks (like those above) worked out this won't be necessary.  But for now this double-checking will likely save you some headaches.