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[antipodes]

Hello all
This is very helpful!

I have a strange problem. Can I mention the url cause it may be relevant? I have a site free hosted at: 9cy.com
I made an ammendment to the index.html page and uploaded it. Problem is the ammendment doesn't show. Then I deleted the original (self contained) index page and uploaded again. Same problem. So, thinking it was cached or something I waited. After a day nothing. There is no contact working on the free hoster.
But when I did a keyword density search the missing part showed up. I've fiddled around and re-uploaded many times without this part showing. It shows in my local browser of course because it's there. This is a very perplexing problem. Just can't figure it out. Hope someone can help!
antipodes

[Birdman]

If your browsing with AOL, that's the prob. It drove me crazy for awhile, until I figured out that AOL caches pages.

[Snoozer]

If your using internet explorer hold down your shift key when you hit the refresh button. This will not use the cache on internet explorer when refreshing.

[jdMorgan]

antipodes,

Flush your browser cache (Temporary Internet Flles). If the new page is on the server, it's on the server - and the problem is elsewhere. Your browser cache, or an intevening cache (e.g. at your ISP) is just serving an old copy.

HTH,
Jim

[antipodes]

more on this issue. The text and link I placed on the new page and uploaded is invisible. It is in the html source code, its link shows up under the mouse cursor, as a link in IE(5). I can even click on it. Yet it is all invisible.

[gsx]

Is there an external CSS or JavaScript file that it refers to. If so, reupload them all if they have been amended.

[antipodes]

There are no external files. I have exhausted all the suggestions mentioned here, cache etc,. before I came to the forum. Would someone please take a look at the site. Note that the code in question is in the imagemapping area and the second href down in that section. You'll see clearly that the link is there, yet that does not appear on the page. The copy is inside the main jpg img because it's built up inside fireworks.

Hope u don't issue with this url drop:

www.david.9cy.com

I spent most of the day yesterday on this. I'll keep trying and let u know if i succeed.

[antipodes]

JDMorgan is correct. I'll move from free host to paid host and solve this problem.

[Receptional Andy]

>If your using internet explorer hold down your shift key when you hit the refresh button. This will not use the cache on internet explorer when refreshing. <

This should actually be the control key, because this gets Internet Explorer to request the latest version of the page from the server (even if the server is caching, sometimes)

i.e hit Ctrl-F5 to request the latest version of a page). Think this works with Mozilla too.

[antipodes]

thanks receptional_andy, this (ctrl + f5) worked and successfully refreshed the page. I'll let all the other ppl with the same problem know at the 9cy forum.

Thanks again. Great resource here!