Help! Browsers load older version of my site, until user clicks REFRESH

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by flylanddesigns, Feb 9, 2011.

  1. #1
    HELP!

    I've recently designed a website at:

    Flyland Designs dot com, hosted by GoDaddy.com

    The site works fine, but whenever I add new content (add an image, change text, etc.), that update won't show up until the user hits the refresh button.

    In one case, I uploaded the new content to GoDaddy's FTP and 15 hours later, when I went to the site on a different computer, it loaded the site as it was a day earlier. Only when I hit refresh did the changes appear.

    What can be causing this problem? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
     
    flylanddesigns, Feb 9, 2011 IP
  2. jawanda

    jawanda Peon

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    It should only be loading the old version if the user has been to the site before and thus has the old version in their cache.

    Try this:

    Close and re-open your browser

    Clear your cache (in Firefox Tools->Clear recent history, in IE Tools->Internet Options->Delete )

    Go to your page. The page that is showing up now is what someone is seeing if they are a first-time visitor. In theory.

    -P
     
    jawanda, Feb 9, 2011 IP
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    Thanks for the response.
    My concern is for returning visitors that visited my page previously. I want them to see the most recent content, but it seems that they are seeing the cached version of the page that they saw from their last visit. Any ideas why?
     
    flylanddesigns, Feb 9, 2011 IP