We designed a website about 6 months ago that has just had a minor tweek done to it, change of graphics and text in places. The client has had a look at the new site on one machine and all is fine, had a look on another machine and some of the graphics have not changed. I have got him to delete his cache and to set the check for newer versions to every visit to the page, but it is still the same. We have got rollovers, when he rolls over some he gets the old button instead of the new one. If this makes sense, does anyone have any suggestions ? I was thinking that maybe it is an ISP caching issue. what you think ?
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Caching Problem ?
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You probably changed the name of the images you are using for rollover buttons when you redesigned the site. All of the old images are likely still on the web server and the code that points to the rollover images was probably not updated to point to the new ones. An easy way to fix the problem is to go through your html on each page and check your links then update the server again with the corrected code. If you are using Dreamweaver it has a great synchronization feature that will update the changed parts and delete from the server anything that is no longer part of your site (ie old images, etc).
Also, what is the web site address?
Hope this helps, I have not had enough coffee yet so it is all somewhat foggy up there ya know? LOL
Jason
Also, what is the web site address?
Hope this helps, I have not had enough coffee yet so it is all somewhat foggy up there ya know? LOL
Jason
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Thanks for the post, and that would be a posibility but i have overwritten the old images with new ones you see and the code is the same, so it should just display the new images instead of the old ones. it is onyl happening on a couple of machines (just happens to be the clients machines !!!) all that i can think is that the images are cached at the ISP for some reason as it appears to be only the images that i ahve changed everyting else is fine.
I think that i will add some no cache code to the pages and see if that fixes the problem !
cheers again !
I think that i will add some no cache code to the pages and see if that fixes the problem !
cheers again !
I think it is most likely you are right, the ISP's cache probably updates too slowly or is too specific about refreshes. The other possibility is that the web browser cache at the ISP is not updating often enough. It is something that should rectify itself in time, but a real nuisance none the less, you could let the ISP know so they could do it manually if it's critical.
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