Misaligned text after republishing

**Ken Anderson** · 17 January 2012, 01:36 AM

Have searched for help with this, not found anything.

Occasionally after republishing, when I first view a page, it may have some misaligned text. It's easily corrected by hitting "refresh." However, I have some frequent visitors who experience this now & then, and seem oblivious to the "refresh" button, so I sometimes get notes telling me that something is screwed up in the design. I tell 'em what to do, that fixes it, no problem. I suspect some new stuff is bumping into some old cached stuff.

Is there a way to FORCE pages to refresh when viewed? I'm sure that would create slowdowns for folks who don't experience this. Any suggestions?

**Drwyd** · 17 January 2012, 10:16 AM

"Republish changed files only"

This will prevent the renaming of files and reduce cache problems.

**andymack** · 17 January 2012, 11:55 AM

I think you will find that this is an ever-present problem for anyone designing websites, no matter what tools are used to publish it. It is just a fact that all your visitors who have visited the site before will have a cached version in their system. I always instruct my clients to use the refresh whilst reviewing a build of their site. Of course this does not affect unique visitors to your clients site, and if you explain this to them, they will understand.

**Ken Anderson** · 22 January 2012, 06:08 PM

Thanks Drwyd and andymack ... I think I have the "republish changed files only" set properly, but will check. I think perhaps a little unobtrusive note about refreshing might be in order, but if I make it unobtrusive, it probably won't reach those for whom it's really intended. But I appreciate the confirmation of what I've been telling people ... it's likely a caching conflict.

Ken

**Drwyd** · 22 January 2012, 06:23 PM

You're welcome Ken

Be aware that "Republish changed files only" and "browser refresh (CTRL+f5)" will not solve all the problems. Your ISP along with your clients ISP will also be caching files.

**Big Frank** · 23 January 2012, 10:30 AM

You could put this meta tag into the <head> of your pages:

Code:

<meta http-equiv="Cache-control" content="no-cache">

This instructs the browser to fetch all page elements from the server rather than from its own cache.

**Ken Anderson** · 05 February 2012, 05:35 AM

Thanks! Will give that a try.

Ken

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