Repa, a repeat question (I forgot the answer)

Repa,

I can't remember the answer you gave me on the other board. I know it was an easy answer. I am updating a website and it used to be that when I just refreshed IE after Putting the updated page back on the web, IE would show the changes. Now, it won't show them. What am I doing wrong? (Sorry...brain fart)

The other site is down and I can't remember the exact circumstances, Ruth. But, I know you use Dreamweaver, and I vaguely remember something about the remote site not being connected before. So,

1. Have you connected to the remote site before you clicked on the "Put Files" icon? If you haven't, nothing will be changed.

2. Here is a screenshot of Dreamweaver 4:



3. Note that the Remote site is showing on the left side of the screen, and my Computer web files corresponding to that site are on the right side of the screen. Your Remote site must be showing on the left side before you do the upload.

4. Use the "Connects to Remote Host" icon to connect to your site (shown in the left side of the screen) before clicking on the "Put Files" icon to upload your changed local file(s) (shown in the right side of the screen) .

5. After the upload finishes (watch the activity in the bar at the bottom of your dreamweaver page), open the changed file(s) on the Remote Site side (left side) to make sure the changes took. If the changes are there, then you should see the changes in Internet Explorer the next time you go there.

Thanks Repa! I am on the desktop computer this morning and my Dreamweaver is on my laptop, so I can't check it out right now. But I'm almost 100% positive that I was connected to the remote site, but I'll post back later when I'm on the laptop.

I hadn't realized that the other site had been taken down. I forgot that I could have looked there without signing in. I should have done that, oh well...hindsight is 20/20, right?

The other site has been down for maintenance for 2 days - it was supposed to be back up yesterday afternoon. One other thing you might do if you still have a problem in IE after verifying that your remote site files were changed in Dreamweaver is to delete temporary internet files and cookies in IE.

Repa,

I tried going to the old board, and it is still down for maintenance. Then, I remembered your answer from that time. You suggested to work in Remote view mode. I tried doing that, and everything is fine now!

Thanks again for your help!!
(This time, I will make a note of the solution)!

FYI... the other forum is back up....... but running slow

Ruth..... don't forget..... there is a print page here

Thanks Sam!! I DID forget about the print...thanks!