To help navigate the website quickly, your browser (eg. Microsoft Edge) stores a copy of every website you visit on your computer. These copies are stored in a “cache”. After you or your designer makes changes to your website, the data in the cache needs to be replaced. This is also needed when your website application is upgraded.
To view the changes, you will need to manually either (a) bypass or (b) clear the browser’s cache.
Bypassing:
To bypass the cache, you will need to open the website using a special window in your browser. Each browser has a different title for this window. These windows are called “InPrivate”, “Private” or “Incognito”. Open your normal browser, go to the top right-hand corner, click the three dots and open one of the specific windows above. Use this window to inspect your website changes. Instructions: Click Here
Note: Websites you regularly visit may be “sticky” and hard to bypass. In these cases. We suggest clearing your browser cache (see below) including cookies. The restart you browser. Alternatively, use a different browser – one that you rarely use.
Clearing:
Your browser will look inside its cache before downloading new data from the website. To force the browser to download a new copy of a website, you need to clear the cache inclduing any cookies. For good maintenance, we recommend clearing your cache weekly or monthly. After you clear the cache, you will lose specific website settings and you will be logged out of all websites. Instructions: Click Here
Note: Eventually, the cached copy will be automatically updated. Depending on each person’s settings, this could take minutes, days or weeks. This applies to the public viewers of your website.
Regular Editing
Because we work on websites regularly, we clear the cache daily. If you intend to edit websites regularly, we suggest using a specific browser only for editing. One that you do not use for regular internet use. Chrome is our recommendation because it doesn’t have as much security as Firefox, Edge, Opera or Brave.