You changed a picture on your web page and then go view the page, either on your drive or in your webspace. But it hasn't changed! The problem is that the image is cached, and the browser is using the cached image. Caching is where the weighty image is stored on your hard drive. The browser will not fetch the new version from the server or it's stated location but instead will use its own copy. This speeds up download time considerably.
In order to view the new version of your image, you must reload the image. Use the reload (Netscape) or refresh (Internet Explorer) button to get the browser to retrieve the new version of the image.
Why mention this little headache on a site that looks at the differences between Netscape and Explorer? I've found that Netscape is a little finicky about what it wants to reload. If an image is changed only in a small way, like a background is made transparent, Netscape will not detect the change and refuse to fetch the new image. Instead, it will read the image as unchanged and simple keep using the cached version.
I've found two ways to get Netscape to show the updated image. One is to shut the browser down and then open it again. The other is to right click the image and choose view image. The graphic will be opened in its own window. Then reload that page. The graphic will update. Use the back button to go back to the page and the image will be updated.
For some reason, half of your page is invisible. You haven't done anything with font color. The code is there. What happened?
Perhaps you have non-standard comment tags in the HTML documenet. A comment tag must look like this:
<!-- a comment -->
The comment tag must always be closed (as all tags should be), must start with
an exclamation point and two dashes and end with two dashes. The dashes must have a least one
space between them and the interior comments.
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