Thanks for the help boys!

I have thanked you on http://www.web-design.co.za/blog/ too.  Who knows...the post may bring a few more people to site reference.

Hope I'm not too late to get involved with this.

.htaccess:
In dreamweaver, I just start a new html page and write my commands. when it comes to saving it, I type .htaccess in the filename field and set it to "any/all files" in the drop down box. it then gets saved as .htaccess

For the headers, I found that in some browsers, it didnt work as intended. So after searching around for a while, i came up with this:

header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

header("Last-Modified: " . gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s") . " GMT"); 

header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate"); 

header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, pre-check=0", false);

header("Pragma: no-cache");

Seems to work in all browsers and forces a reload of any page it is on.
It doesnt need to be at the top of any file, but it does need to be before any output

hope this helps

Hi Griffinsbridge

Well I have sorted out the problem, but I'm always open to learning new things & learning new ways of doing things. So thanks, I'll be sure to install Dreamweaver next time & give it a try!

Northie wrote:

search the help for your ftp programme to find out how to show hidden files

I finally tried this today, and it worked like a charm!  I can now see that damn .htaccess file.
Thanks Northie, I really appreciate all the help