Cannot seem to update a website

[behzad]

I have tried this and so many times it does not refresh until I delete all my cache. Not sure why xara does this or is it a browser thing?

[Acorn]

I have tried this and so many times it does not refresh until I delete all my cache. Not sure why Xara does this or is it a browser thing?

It is a browser thing. It is com pounded by the fact a designer modifies and previews in the same browser repeatedly. The Xara Preview uses IE and if Xara was smart such issues would never be apparent in the built-in browser it uses if Xara were to present each preview as a different random virtual site. The other thing Xara does on publish is to increment the filename for images so this ought to avoid caching issues.

If really worried then you need to force caching off somehow.
Usually, this is added to a page Head:

<metahttp-equiv="Cache-Control"content="no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"/>
<metahttp-equiv="Pragma"content="no-cache"/>
<metahttp-equiv="Expires"content="0"/>Only do this on frequently changing pages and remove when the site is more stable.

Acorn

[sculptex]

By default, on pretty much all hosting out there, HTML files are not cached designated by server settings although this can be overridden in code as acorn demonstrated.

I think the issue here must be the destination folder.

Typically, hosting has a root ftp for an account which points to a base folder. Within that folder, there is usually a folder called public_html which is the one you will need to upload the files to. There are variations to this (especially when several domains are hosted within a single shared hosting) but please confirm that is the folder you are uploading to.
(Sorry to repeat so much of what has been said already,)

[behzad]

Thank you guys.

[PeeWee]

Yes, sculptex, that's where I go on the server and within the public_html folder is one that's dedicated to my site. In my dedicated folder is the index_html _files. I'm about to upload as a general comment a couple of screen shots and the url in question. Thanks for you help.