Suggestions for New Features

Some people have reported a problem with getting their background color or image to display on their website. Even though you choose a background color or image, the background still displays as white when viewed as a webpage. The problem seems to only happen when using Firefox as your browser. It appears that Firefox is adding in some extra code to the text of the page, such as the Welcome Page text, that interferes with the background.

There is a two-part fix to these problem:

Part #1 - Update POW-PAK: One part is an update to POW-PAK that your school tech department needs to install on your school web server. This will stop the problem from happening from here on out.

Part #2 - Remove unneeded code: The second part is something each user needs to do if they have had this problem. This part is to clean up the unneeded code that got added. Even when you tech department does the upgrade to POW-PAK, you still need to go through and clean out the unneeded code. It will not disappear automatically.

Below is a detailed explanation of each part:

Part #1 - Update POW-PAK (NOTE: This part needs to be done by your school tech department)

Download the file called richtext_compressed.zip. You can use the link here or go to the downloads page.
Unzip the file and you will get a file called "richtext_compressed.js"
Copy this file to your web server to replace the older version of this file. The file goes in the following folder: Open your POW-PAK directory, then open the "cgi-bin" folder, then open the "secure" folder and save the file there in place of the old version of the file.
You may need to change the permissions of the file if they got changed during the copy. Everyone needs to be able to read and execute the file.

That's it for Part #1. POW-PAK is now updated and new occurrences of the background problem will not happen. However, anyone who already had the problem will need to do Part #2 below to remove the extra code that got added in.

Part #2 - Remove unneeded code (NOTE: This part needs to be done by each user who had the background problem)

If you are a user who had the background problem, then you need to remove the extra code that got inserted into your web page that is interfering with your background. Here is how you clean up the code:

Go to the edit screen for the page that has the problem. For example, click the "Edit" button for your "Welcome Page text"
You will now see the rich text editor box where all of the text for your web page is displayed. However, in this mode you are unable to see the additional code that needs removed.
Switch to HTML mode by checking the box at the bottom of the rich text editor that says "View Source"
You are now in HTML code mode. Scroll to the bottom all the code and look for text that says:

Delete that text entirely. Be careful to only delete exactly what is displayed above. If it shows up more than one time, be sure to delete each occurrence of that text.
Once the unneeded code is deleted, click the "Update" button to save your changes. Now you background will be able to display properly.

NOTE: Your tech department has to do Part #1 above first, or your background problem will come back if you continue to use Firefox. Your only other option is to switch to Internet Explorer to edit your web page and do the steps in Part #2 to clean up the unneeded code.