How to explain to the site filler that it is not necessary to use visual highlighting of parts of the text often?

Question

Design

Hello!
I must say right away that I am creating websites for schools and similar institutions. After development and initial content, the site is given to schools.
And with every such site I run into the same problem. The people filling the site absolutely do not adhere to the original, approved design. A very large percentage of text contains visual highlighting of text (red, bold, italic, underlined text, sometimes all of these).
As a result, an initially pleasant site turns into a terrible, multi-colored, multi-sized mess. Feel free to add to portfolio.
So, the question is: how to teach users not to oversaturate the text with content highlighting, and most importantly, how to explain why they should not do this?

Answer 1

Good afternoon. Tell them the site is not a loudspeaker. The site is a tool with which you can convey information to the end user, but will a person listen to them if they yell in his face with saliva, BUY MY GOODS, or LISTEN TO ME! Give them an example of a visit to any chain store and a consultant salesman who almost by the scruff of the neck drags customers to the shelves while yelling in his ear that he has the best, and ask them if they like it if they want to meet similar interlocutors at every step.

Answer 2

Beat on the hands with a metal ruler.

Answer 3

It is necessary to remove the functions of visual selection, replacing them with semantic constructions, such as "block of selected text", which will be decorated in css.
Leave headings, lists, hr and a couple of tags.

Answer 4

Prohibit layout or limit, or make javascript bring the text into a normal form, i.e. replaces caps with normal text, after a dot the first letter is capitalized, the color of the text is always the same, etc.

Answer 5

Can disable arbitrary formatting in the admin panel, and leave only minimal formatting functions.
In general, this is a question akin to "How to teach a person good taste" :)

Answer 6

What are you))) tell them that if you do this, the site will simply break) and that's it.
To the pleas to think of something, take pity and resolve the bold.
Bold only! only hardcore!
ps
But seriously, the customer is always right. And do not treat his manner of filling and editing content as bad taste. His bad taste is his need, so squeeze the rolls and assemble the site so that you would not be ashamed to add it to your portfolio, and the customer could frolic to his heart's content.
remembering the rule "criticizing offer" is ready to help with the solution)
there is a lot of experience in communicating with comrades from the field of education ... a lot)

Answer 7

get a copywriter and fill it yourself

Answer 8

Show them a normal book or a serious magazine and ask "well, where do you see red or underlined here?"

Answer 9

Remove or redefine unnecessary buttons from the editor, clean up the excess when saving, use css to bring the rest to the standard form. And teaching at the same time, of course. I go through this story with each new editor/journalist on several of my content projects. I've tried many methods, none of them seem to work. The ideal option is to take the client for support.

Answer 10

1. Screw the typographer. Because all these direct programmer quotes, hyphens and spaces before commas and the lack of spaces in the initials is just a nightmare.
2. Disable underlining. text-decoration: none !importantand that's it. And underlining in text is evil. For links, of course, we interrupt. It's the same with flowers.
3. Thoughtlessly dropping caps to “First - capital” is not an option, because there may be abbreviations in the text.