The refresh meta tag has several uses. The most common is probably redirecting people from the old location of a page to its new location. If you've moved your home page from one domain name to another, you can leave a page at the old address that will redirect users to the new address. As Figure D shows, this redirect page should also include a hyperlink to the new address, since some older browsers don't recognize refresh meta tags, and since many users don't like to wait 5 or 10 seconds to be redirected. In addition, your redirect page should include the new address to encourage people to change their bookmarks.
Some developers use the refresh tag to create the illusion of a slide show on their sites.
So, each page should also include a link to your main page. Finally, you can use the refresh tag to reload the current page automatically. For example, if you have a page that displays your company's current stock price, you might want to automatically refresh it every 10 minutes or so. Let's see how that works. Choose the File menu's Page Properties option again and click the Custom tab to open the dialog box shown in Figure B. Now, select the refresh tag we created earlier and click Modify.