There are oodles of goodies in there for web developers, and WordPress folks. And I might commend Joost’s good taste in including FontFriend in Quix — just type “font” and you’re off.

But, in the real world, training is spotty, often forgotten and authors will still paste directly from Word. Compounding this is that the editor currently needs to be expanded to even see this functionality. Also, the disadvantage of pasting plain text is that authors lose formatting such as bold and italics, which is frustrating. In an effort to combat this, I’ve come up with the following defensive CSS styles that I will add to all future sites I deliver to clients.

.MsoNormal {
margin: [normal <p> margins here] !important;
text-indent: 0 !important;
}
.MsoNormal span, font {
font-size: inherit !important;
font-family: inherit !important;
color: inherit !important;
}

Notes:

• the .MsoNormal class is, in my experience, always attached to a <p> element. If you are setting margins specifically on the <p> element, you cannot tell it to inherit, because there’s nothing to inherit from. Instead, match the margin styling on the appropriate <p> element

<?php
if ( !is_user_logged_in() && (get_bloginfo('home') == "http://yourblogurl.com") ) { ?>
 
Google Analytics code goes here.
 
<?php } ?>
The if() statement is what drives this code, checking firstly that the person viewing the page is not a logged-in user. Then it adds a second line of defense against serving the analytics code when I’m developing on my local machine. It ensures that the page is being served by your production server (fill in whatever your blog’s home url happens to be) so that your local development also doesn’t inflate your pageviews.

Of course, this would work with any analytics code. Just insert this snippet wherever the tracking code is supposed to go, and you should be all set!

What occurred in between my initial desire for one domain and finding one that was available was a whole lot of searching. I tried dozens of different names and variations to the point of mild obsession. Most domain name registrars include a convenient little search box where you can try a domain to see if it’s available. I was always a little leery of this, since there was nothing preventing the site from capturing my search term and buying the domain itself. It turns out that Network Solutions, one of the largest domain name registrars around, has been doing exactly this. Command Line Warriors has the full story.

What it boils down to is this: Network Solutions would take your search term and register the domain themselves. They would then be only too happy to sell it to you, but now you’re unable to take your business anywhere else! My suggestion to avoid all of this is to do one of two things. 1) If you’re my client, leave it to me. I’ll make sure that your domain search isn’t compromised like this. 2) If you want to search yourself, use a trustworthy source like AjaxWhois, who have publicly denounced Network Solutions and promise never to do such a thing with your data. Also, you can search across multiple Top Level Domains such as .com, .org, .net, etc. simultaneously. Very nice.