What Does the Refresh/Reload Button Do?

Your internet browser temporarily saves the web pages, and the images on those pages, in order to load those same pages faster when you go to them again. This “cache” is a great way to visit pages over and over without waiting forever for the page to load.

Some webmasters design their pages to automatically refresh each time you visit their site in order to make sure that your browser is loading the most current images. Other websites irritatingly refresh your browser every five minutes or so (like they change their information that fast – yeah right).

Anyway, you can reload the page yourself. Press the “refresh” or “reload” button on your browser. This will force your browser to load the website from the source, rather than the saved files on your computer.

Depending on which browser you use, your button will look something like one of these:

Happy browsing!

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8 Comments

  1. Monday, June 18, 2007 at 7:25 am

    Thanks for the helpful info Jenn.
    I would like to know why sometimes when I try to load “Twaddle” I get a message that “server not found”. Eventually after several tries it loads.

  2. Monday, June 18, 2007 at 10:37 am

    I changed my gravatar picture but it still shows the same one. do you know why?

  3. carol
    Monday, June 18, 2007 at 1:38 pm

    why?!?!

  4. Monday, June 18, 2007 at 9:16 pm

    never mind it is working now
    i might change it again though. It is supposed to be a treasure chest with a couple walking toward it. (like walking to my store)

  5. Jenn
    Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    I don’t know why this blog takes a long time to load (or doesn’t load at all). I don’t think it’s a problem with your computer. I’m not paying much for my server, so I imagine that might have something to do with it.

  6. Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 7:44 pm

    HEY! i see you still don’t know how to make websites. interesting. did you learn nothing from me? j/k. alright thats all. i just wanted to make fun of you on your blogtastic blog. but if you want to talk you can email us. later ropey.

    -jeff

  7. Jenn
    Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at 9:23 am

    Jeff! My favorite polishman! Glad to hear from you. I’ll email if I feel like it. Probably not. :D

  8. Jenn
    Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 4:00 pm

    Another old post that needs a response…

    I think I fixed the problem with the slow loading of this blog. I haven’t had the “server not found” error in a while either.

    How is it working for you guys?

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