Robyn, hit your refresh button. Joan's new blog should show up then. I had to do that.

That's hard to understand. I agree with redbud. Hitting the refresh button should draw the immediate version of the site freshly to the screen.

Leigh or Mary, would you mind confirming whether you have tried the refresh button?

The problem is with your web browser's cache, which stores web pages you have already viewed. If you web browser doesn't realize or check to see if the page was updated it will bring up the page it stored earlier. This is very annoying since many people have faster connections that make caching less necessary. The caches do not necessarily clear when you quit the web browser or restart your computer. Some times refreshing a page is enough, other times there might be a special incantation you need when refreshing the page (try option-"click on refresh" if you are using a Mac with any browser)

Leigh, everyone's an idiot at something. Why should you be any different?

If you are on a PC using Windows then you almost certainly have a row of squiggly do dad's across the top of your screen. Those are called icons for no explainable reason.

One is like a little house with no windows but a tiny chimney. Another is a five pointed star. Another is two round arrow signs usually in the upper left corner. They come in pairs. Sometimes one or both is blue - not gray.

We don't care about any of those right now. What we're looking for is the round squiggle where someone started at 3 o'clock and drew a round circle up to 12 o'clock where it ends in a little arrow at the top pointing right.

THAT is the little button/icon/thingy you want. Because that is the little thingy some genius decided means "would you like to reload this page again?"

Put your mouse over the circling round arrow button and click once. Your computer will go to the site you are viewing and pull down the very latest version.

If you hold your mouse over it, most PC's are set up to bring a message up and you will see the computer explain in tiny letters [refresh f5].

That's the easiest way to refresh your screen if you have shaky fingers or see the 'icons' as a sea of confusion.

Look along the top row of your keyboard now. The first button along the top row from the upper left is your escape button. The next one over is called F1. The next one oddly enough is called F2. Count over to F5. That's usually in the second group of 4 along the top of most keyboards.

Pressing the F5 button once does the same thing as finding that circling icon. It refreshes the page.


Here's the short version:

Open Joan's site. Press the F5 key along the top of your keyboard once. Done.

Hey Paul. ;-D

When you don't know the language chrome is on a car bumper and a firefox is a plane Clint Eastwood flew in a movie once. Or was that Robert De Niro? One of those from the angry school of acting.

I loved the way Wolf explained the refresh button. There was a time that I needed that kind of advice. We learn the computer little by little and after using one for at least 15, maybe 20, years, I still need some things explained in plain easy to understand language. Thank you Wolf. I'll come to you when I have a computer problem.

When I need computer help I look for some young kid and they always just click, click, click and it's done. And then look at this poor old granny and shake their head. I was born three generations b-4 computers.