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Press Refresh on any page and your brought back to my homepage

some way to fix this?

         

girlygirl

3:15 am on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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No mattern what page your on, if you press Refresh, you'll be brought back to my home page (index.html)
Anyone know how to fix this?
Jen

tedster

4:07 am on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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It sounds like your whole site may be inside a frameset. When you navigate the links through your site, does the address change in the browser's location bar for each page?

girlygirl

4:48 am on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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The http: address in the Address bar changes with each page.
Jen

tedster

5:09 am on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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When you press "Refresh" does the address in the location bar change again? It should stay exactly on the address that is already loaded.

Also, have you seen this behavior on more than one computer?

girlygirl

3:26 pm on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Last night when I checked to see if the address bar changes with each page it would. Went to check just now and it stays the same with each new page. Strange.

tedster

7:58 pm on Dec 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

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There you have it - your pages are in a frameset, and Refresh will return the window to the original pages that populate that frameset. You can verify with "View Source" - you will see a frameset page rather than your page's content if my theory is true.

You may see the address change temporarily while the new frame loads, but when the loading is done, you will see the original address.

And the fix is, naturally, not to have the frameset. This may be something your host requires, so moving to a new host might be a neccesary part of the fix.

treeline

12:45 am on Dec 13, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I agree, this usually happens with frames. Getting rid of the frames has more benefits. Right now people can't bookmark individual pages - they'll always go to the homepage. Also, they can't link to your interior pages.