| Auggie 2006-04-29, 6:53 pm |
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"Helen Martin" <hrmartin@nospam.uniserve.com> wrote in message
news:125640h5gvjn26@corp.supernews.com...
> hi there.. I'm wondering how long it takes for a browser to reset the
> visited links.. is there a way to force that.. if I want to test to see
> how my page looks to a new visitor??
In Internet Explorer this is a date period set by the users preferences.
You can just open up IE and then click on TOOLS and INTERNET OPTIONS... and
then on the first panel click the "CLEAR HISTORY" button.
You will see a number to the left of the "CLEAR HISTORY" button, thats how
many days your IE is set to keep a history of what websites you have
visited.
You can set the color of the link as it appears on your website through CSS:
<a href='default.html' style='color:blue;'>home</a>
> I'm also wondering about page refreshes.. is that always controlled by
> your brower according to pre-set preferences.. I read about a meta tag
> for refresh but the writer said there were problems with it which I
> didn't totally understand.. something about going back to the previous
> page.. I don't understand why that would be.. ?
What the "Meta Tag Refresh" does is it reloads the web page after a certain
period of time has elapsed. This isn't something that most sites need
unless they have dynamic content that is constantly changing and being
updated. Websites that should use something like this are sites like sports
sites (to keep refreshing and updating scores, time left, etc), sites with
constantly updating news feeds or stock market/business sites with updating
stock/market information, etc.
I suspect you are actually wondering about the content on your page not
refreshing as you are working on it. For this you can change your browser
settings or even go so far as to delete the cached files... or once the page
has loaded hit the "refresh" or "reload page" button.
While developing your site you are sometimes going to see out of date
versions of your site until you hit refresh, but your customers won't be
when the come to visit your site for the first time their cached files will
accept the current version.
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