I made my site in dreamweaver and I'm happy with how it all works, save for one thing. When ever I do an update and upload a new version of my pages, I need to push the refresh button before my browser displays the new versions. Friends of mine have had the same problem and I'm worried that people might be coming to my site and then leaving because they think I've not updated.

can anyone offer me an explanation and a way to sort this?

you can make the page automatically refresh every few minutes
or you can put the times you update at the bottom of the page so visiters know when you update

The reason you may need to refresh is that your page is cached by the browser for faster loading.  I don't know if Dreamweaver lets you set the refresh on your page, but you could place the following html code in the head portion of your page :

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="X" />

Replace "X" with the amount of seconds you want the page to refresh.  If you want it to refresh every five minutes, put in "300".

I hope it helps.

J Sheehan

http://www.bymagic.com

 

You know, this is a really long time later, but I don't think this was the proper way to go around it.

Basically some browsers will cache the page.  Further, some servers, even ISPs will cache paches.  The proper response was probably to tell the browser to not cache the page.  You could do something like putting.

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1">

In the Head tag.  If you were using asp you could add something like the following in the server code.

<% Response.CacheControl = "no-cache" %>
<% Response.AddHeader "Pragma", "no-cache" %>
<% Response.Expires = -1 %>
   

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Richard M.
Grimfang
"Whisper"
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