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Reloading or Refreshing Your Browser
(posted on 8 Mar 2013)

Reloading or Refreshing Your Browser
Reload or Refresh Browser Icons

Some of you may have noticed that we've recently change the behavior when you click on the "view website" link at the top of your Admin Panel. Now, when you click on that link, it opens up a new Tab with your website.

The reason we did this is that it's often easier to have two Tabs open to manage and edit your website. If you have one Tab open with your Admin Panel, you can make changes and save them there.

Then, you can switch to your Website Tab, reload the page (I'll tell you how below) and see the changes you've just made! If you don't like what you see, simply go back to the Admin Panel Tab and make the appropriate changes.

And, as I like to say, "Rinse & Repeat" as often as necessary ;-)

Now, when you go back to the Website Tab, you will probably need to "Reload" or "Refresh" your browser to make sure you have the latest changes.

To do this, you have a few options.

In most browsers, near the address bar (where the address of the webpage is), there usually is an icon either like the green or blue one pictured above and you can simply click on it to reload the page.

However, sometimes that doesn't completely remove your "Cache" and you'll need to "force a reload". But, what is your browser (or internet) cache and how do I "force a reload"?

Browser or Internet Cache
In order to speed up web browsing, web browsers are designed to download web pages and store them locally on your computer's hard drive in an area called "cache".
Browser cache (also known as Internet cache) contains records of every item you have viewed or downloaded while Internet surfing.
So when you visit the same page for a second time, the browser speeds up display time by loading the page locally from cache instead of downloading everything again.
But, when you've changed something in your Admin Panel, you WANT the web browser to download everything fresh again.
Here's how you can force it to do this:
Force a Reload / Refresh
Depending on your operating system, all you need to do is the following key combination:
  • Windows: Control (Ctrl) and F5 (simultaneously)
  • Mac/Apple: Apple and R or Command and R (simultaneously)
  • Linux: F5
If you want so see more details on clearing your cache for all the different browsers and more information about reloading your cache, here's a great "Cache" article.

As always, we're more than happy to answer any further questions you might have!

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