The first topic for today is CACHE. No, not the spending kind unfortunately. Your computer's cache. Quite simply, cache is a tiny little space tucked within your computer's files that allows for data to be saved. This data comes from websites. Not to worry, this isn't a bad thing as most of the time, it's images from the website. It's not even the full image, just a snapshot of sorts.
WHAT program is doing this??? It's your web browser, the program you use to enjoy the internet.
WHY??? With these little pieces and bits easy to reach, the web browser can load web pages you've previously visited quickly. The image at the top of the website as well as some of the other pictures on that page pop up on your screen within seconds. Maybe you've noticed that some web pages are slow to load and the images seem to take FOREVER to appear. Likely, this is your first time visiting this particular site OR the person who takes care of the website has changed a few things and your computer does not have this new data or image.
Now.... over at Digital Scrapbook Place.... we kind of take the easy route when it comes to change. I think everyone will agree, our time is best spent designing and NOT being a web master. So, to make things easy on us, when it's time to change a graphic, such as the website header, we give it the same name that the website header has had since 2007. AND then, we don our magic capes, and slip behind the scenes.
What to see what it looks like on the OTHER side of a website???? It's cool.
The secret code.....
looks like this.....
©RyanBowman
A good chunk of that gobble-goop code is file names that just so happen to match files stored on giant computers called web hosts. All of that gobble-goop is a file as well that is stored along with all of the other files on the giant computer that is always on and always connected to the internet. A website has to pay money for this space... kind of like rent.
So the way cool thing for website managers who don't want to spend a ton of time being all geeky like with code and what not, we can swap things out as long as we know what file folder they're tucked in and what the EXACT file name is... because that's what's in the code.
©Getawebsite
Okay, so I admit it, likely this is only cool to geeky types like me.
Think of a website as an old time POST OFFICE. It pretty much always looks the same. The boxes are always in the same spot.
The postal customer only has access to certain things. Maybe the supply table... forms for mailing packages... things like that. The postal customer might also have a their own little box.
At DSP, we have our own little spaces, our account, our gallery, our private massages, etc.
So what I'm trying to say... is that on the front side of the website, we get to enjoy the whole entire lobby of the old post office and our own little box. BUT on the backside it looks like this. Oh yeah... lots of spots to put things and if ya don't know what you're doing, you could mess things up. It's all open on the backside too so you don't want to be back there unless you know what you're doing.
So think of it this way.... ONE spot has all the code for the website and ALL of the rest of the spots are filled with the files necessary for that code. All of those spots are labeled and this label is part of the code. SO.... so if you want to change out a header without changing the code, you BEST make sure it get's into the right box with EXACTLY the same name.
AND WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH CACHE????
Cache doesn't "see" pictures. The cache on your computer has no way of knowing a website header was changed if the secret gobble-gook code is still the same.
What does this mean for you???
An outdated header on the website. If you've still got tickets running across the top of DSP, you might want to clear your cache because the header file was changed and it should look like this again.
Mind you, YOU DO NOT HAVE to clear your cache as it's self-cleaning. Yeah, it's the ONLY thing in our world that's truly self-cleaning. Eventually, it clears itself out and grabs the new stuff. I sooooooo wish the kitchen would do that!
If the old header is gnawing at you, it's easy to change. Simply clear your cache.
Everyone has a different web browser so I'll just leave you this link from
WIKIHOW because it goes through clearing the cache for many different web browsers.
AND THE SALES???
We are all getting pretty stinkin' tired of the snow around here. According to the Sunday Detroit Free Press, our total snowfall for the season thus far is just shy of 70 inches. That's well over 5 feet of total snow. Yes, some of it has melted BUT I'm telling ya, there is no walking through the pasture right now. Even Shop-Dog is struggling with the depth of the snow. She has taken to utilizing the area under the back deck for her personal needs instead of the woods out back. She simply can't get to the woods out back because the snow is too deep.
Now... if you listen to my husband, he will blame me... because I like to decorate the house this time of year with snowmen. They're cute!
He says the snowmen need to get put away now for the season. He says they make it snow.
I ALWAYS do what my husband tells me to do. So.... let's clear out the snowmen for the season!!
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