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"Auggie" <Imperial.Palace@Rome.It> wrote in message
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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??
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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>
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| > 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.. ?
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
faster/better to clear the browser cache and temp internet files.
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