Why do I need to refresh the pages of a website?

When you go into a website, your computer helpfully uses its memory to save the pages you have looked at. This is for you to use next time. Many computers are set to save these pages for up to a week but these settings can be altered.

So the next time that you access the same site, perhaps a few hours or days later, up come these pages, not from the world wide web but from your computer. It speeds up the process as you do not have to wait for them to download from the internet. This temporary saving of pages is useful for those people with slow Broadband provision or perhaps no Broadband at all but not really necessary these days for those enjoying a fast connection!

The problem is that the web site pages held on the computer may be out of date. So for example, if you load the News page from the Felsted Choral Society Site, it may be that you are looking at last week's news! You would not be aware that the information may have just been updated. Sometimes, during extreme weather, the News page is updated several times in a day as conditions change.

So we force the computer to refresh the pages straight from the internet. To achieve this with Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, position the cursor anywhere over the page. Then press the right button of your mouse and scroll down to Refresh and press the left button of your mouse. On other systems there will be options on the screen to reload the page.

Following these steps will ensure that what you are looking at, is the latest information to be published.

Why not try out the process on this page now.