Refresh - Important !
It is important to stress the use of the Refresh Button / Icon whilst visiting our page in the product sections and in any subsequent visits. With the turnover of product we have, sometimes the site is updated 3 or 4 times per week with the latest data and ongoing new clearance product. However quite a few ISP's are using proxy servers to cache web pages in order to speed up browsing for their clients, and your own browser may do the same. Thus many people who bookmark a particular page for example "Mens Long Sleeve Shirts" return to the page and pull up a "cached" version which is resident in their ISP's proxy server or their own computer.
This "cached" version of the page can contain incorrect or obsolete information, so needs to be updated by hitting the "Refresh" button (or "Reload" button on Netscape browsers). This will save you the hassle of filling in the form and faxing it through and then being told that the product you ordered is out of stock.
No Caching
Some of you web junkies may question why we don't enable the "No Cache" meta tag in the source code. With the pages being as graphics intensive as they are with pictures of our product, this would increase the download times if you were just browsing back and forth through the site. We took the lesser of two evils and decided that you should refresh on subsequent visits to the page instead. Some of our pages run a special sort of script which means that you cannot look at the page offline - ie: it's not cached. A perfect example of this is the "Comments Enquiries & Feedback" page. This has been done so that you are able to get the latest version of the page at any time and observe the comments of the Rivers Customer Feedback Guru who often replies within 24 hours of a message being posted.
Web Standards
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff,
and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C's mission is:
"To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing
protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web."
protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web."
Although not all of our site is W3C HTML 4.01 compliant, the process from the front page, through to online ordering is W3C HTML 4.01 compliant. We are planning to ensure that the entire site is compliant in the near future.
Screen Font Setting - Important !
Our pages will be best viewed when your screen font setting is set to "small fonts". If it is set as "large fonts" the layout of the pages may fall well short of satisfaction.