Ironically enough, there isn’t a way to make something bold* in
(modern semantic) HTML since, as you pointed out in a previous blog
entry, HTML is the ‘model’, not the view 
That’s a pretty good point. Perhaps a standard style sheet could be set up, which posters could reference?
Then again, what you are supposed to be using is tags like em (emphasis), and strong (strong emphasis), and let the user’s browser do that however the user wants such things presented (boldface, underlineing, big font, yelling the word, whatever).
This is precisely why I don’t use WYSIWYG editors for HTML. They invaribly have tons of style buttons and almost no proper emlement buttons. If your development tool completely misses the point of the language, the results can’t be good.