such a stupid question

Hello,

I have a fairly stupid questions to which I'm sure there's a fairly obvious question.

Every couple of days I update the front page of my website and then when I go to look at it I have to refresh the browser to see the updates. Because the website is generally read by the same people is there a way of automatically clearing the cache/refreshing the website so that when one of my regular visitors come they're seeing the latest update?

Thanks very much, and feel free make fun of me. I'll understand why.

It may be your own browser that's not refreshing it quickly enough ('Tools / Internet Options'), or your ISP isn't transferring the updated files quickly enough for you (a problem I sometimes have with my ISP).

You can also add the two meta tag lines to your pages to stop them being cached.

<meta http-equiv="Pragma" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="Expires" content="-1" />

The second version is there for backwards compatability.

The best way to do it is as ukgeoff suggested. You have to code in your header to tell the browser not to cache your page.