diff --git a/application/config/autoload.php b/application/config/autoload.php
index 0da0117..12e19aa 100755
--- a/application/config/autoload.php
+++ b/application/config/autoload.php
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ $autoload['drivers'] = array();
 |
 |	$autoload['helper'] = array('url', 'file');
 */
-$autoload['helper'] = array('vertical');
+$autoload['helper'] = array('vertical', 'asset');
 
 /*
 | -------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/application/helpers/asset_helper.php b/application/helpers/asset_helper.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..25b293f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/application/helpers/asset_helper.php
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+<?php
+defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
+
+/**
+ * Cache-busting asset URLs.
+ *
+ * Apache serves this site's static files with only Last-Modified/ETag and no
+ * Cache-Control or Expires header, so browsers fall back to heuristic freshness
+ * and can hold a stale stylesheet for hours after a deploy. Because deploys here
+ * are a file copy, there is no other signal that anything changed - during
+ * development this repeatedly masked CSS edits, and on the live site a returning
+ * customer would keep the old stylesheet with no way to know.
+ *
+ * Appending the file's mtime makes the URL itself change whenever the file does,
+ * so the browser is forced to refetch. It costs one stat() per asset, which PHP
+ * caches per request.
+ */
+
+if ( ! function_exists('asset_ver'))
+{
+	/**
+	 * Absolute URL for a local asset, with ?v=<mtime> appended.
+	 *
+	 * Only for files inside the webroot. Remote assets (Google Fonts, the
+	 * cookieyes script, momentjs) must keep their own URLs untouched.
+	 *
+	 * Falls back to the plain URL when the file is missing, so a bad path
+	 * degrades to the previous behaviour rather than emitting a warning.
+	 *
+	 * @param  string $path  webroot-relative, e.g. 'assets/css/main.css'
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	function asset_ver($path)
+	{
+		$path = ltrim((string) $path, '/');
+		$url  = rtrim(SITEURL, '/').'/'.$path;
+
+		$file = FCPATH.$path;
+
+		if ($path !== '' && is_file($file))
+		{
+			$url .= (strpos($url, '?') === FALSE ? '?' : '&').'v='.filemtime($file);
+		}
+
+		return $url;
+	}
+}
diff --git a/application/views/includes/barber-head.php b/application/views/includes/barber-head.php
index 2ed6678..336088d 100755
--- a/application/views/includes/barber-head.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/barber-head.php
@@ -32,17 +32,17 @@ $this->load->helper('url');
         <!-- For iPhone 4 Retina display: -->
         <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/img/favicon/apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed.png">
 		<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />
-		<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/barber.css" />
-		<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/noscript.css" /></noscript>
+		<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/barber.css');?>" />
+		<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/noscript.css');?>" /></noscript>
         <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans" rel="stylesheet">
         <!--<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>-->
         <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Abril+Fatface&family=Open+Sans:ital,wght@0,700;0,800;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
-        <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.css">
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.js"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery.js');?>"></script>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.css');?>">
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.js');?>"></script>
         <script src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment-with-locales.js"></script>
 		<!-- Start cookieyes banner --> <script id="cookieyes" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn-cookieyes.com/client_data/82ccb0b38ad63612e4c6a3fa/script.js"></script> <!-- End cookieyes banner -->
-        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/style.css">
-        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/responsive.css">
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/script.js"></script>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/style.css');?>">
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/responsive.css');?>">
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/script.js');?>"></script>
 </head>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/application/views/includes/barber-skeleton-bottom.php b/application/views/includes/barber-skeleton-bottom.php
index 4c823f1..b51897c 100755
--- a/application/views/includes/barber-skeleton-bottom.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/barber-skeleton-bottom.php
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@
         </div>
         </div>
     </div>
-        <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js"></script>
-        <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/browser.min.js"></script>
-        <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/breakpoints.min.js"></script>
-        <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/util.js"></script>
-        <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/studiobave.js"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js');?>"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/browser.min.js');?>"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/breakpoints.min.js');?>"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/util.js');?>"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/studiobave.js');?>"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/application/views/includes/beauty-head.php b/application/views/includes/beauty-head.php
index 4a1920e..8745c16 100755
--- a/application/views/includes/beauty-head.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/beauty-head.php
@@ -31,20 +31,20 @@ $this->load->helper('url');
         <!-- Opera Speed Dial Favicon -->
         <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/img/favicon/speeddial-160px.png" />
         <!-- For iPhone 4 Retina display: -->
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery.js');?>"></script>
         <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/img/favicon/apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed.png">
-		<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/beauty.css" />
-		<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/noscript.css" /></noscript>
+		<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/beauty.css');?>" />
+		<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/noscript.css');?>" /></noscript>
         <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans" rel="stylesheet">
         <!--<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>-->
         <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Abril+Fatface&family=Open+Sans:ital,wght@0,700;0,800;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
-        <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.css">
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.js"></script>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.css');?>">
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.js');?>"></script>
         <script src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment-with-locales.js"></script>
 		<!-- Start cookieyes banner --> <script id="cookieyes" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn-cookieyes.com/client_data/82ccb0b38ad63612e4c6a3fa/script.js"></script> <!-- End cookieyes banner -->
-        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/style.css">
-        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/responsive.css">
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/script.js"></script>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/style.css');?>">
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/responsive.css');?>">
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/script.js');?>"></script>
         <!-- Meta Pixel Code -->
         <script>
         !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)
diff --git a/application/views/includes/beauty-skeleton-bottom.php b/application/views/includes/beauty-skeleton-bottom.php
index d8e7e6c..fd1f4b7 100755
--- a/application/views/includes/beauty-skeleton-bottom.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/beauty-skeleton-bottom.php
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
         </div>
     </div>
 </div>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/browser.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/breakpoints.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/util.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/studiobave.js"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/browser.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/breakpoints.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/util.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/studiobave.js');?>"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/application/views/includes/head.php b/application/views/includes/head.php
index 1af4b14..104faf5 100755
--- a/application/views/includes/head.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/head.php
@@ -31,21 +31,21 @@ $this->load->helper('url');
     <!-- For iPhone 4 Retina display: -->
     <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/img/favicon/apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed.png">
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, user-scalable=no" />
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/main.css" />
-    <noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/noscript.css" /></noscript>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/main.css');?>" />
+    <noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/noscript.css');?>" /></noscript>
     <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Abril+Fatface&family=Open+Sans:ital,wght@0,700;0,800;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
     <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans" rel="stylesheet">
     <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.4.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
     <script src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment-with-locales.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery.flexdatalist.min.js"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery.flexdatalist.min.js');?>"></script>
 	<!-- Start cookieyes banner --> <script id="cookieyes" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn-cookieyes.com/client_data/82ccb0b38ad63612e4c6a3fa/script.js"></script> <!-- End cookieyes banner -->
-    <link href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery.flexdatalist.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
+    <link href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery.flexdatalist.min.css');?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
     <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Abril+Fatface&family=Open+Sans:ital,wght@0,700;0,800;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
-    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/style.css">
-    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/responsive.css">
-    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/modules.css">
-    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/calendar.css">
-    <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/script.js"></script>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/style.css');?>">
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/responsive.css');?>">
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/modules.css');?>">
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/calendar.css');?>">
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/script.js');?>"></script>
     <!-- Meta Pixel Code -->
 <script>
 !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)
diff --git a/application/views/includes/main-skeleton-bottom.php b/application/views/includes/main-skeleton-bottom.php
index 2c5aa04..296f472 100755
--- a/application/views/includes/main-skeleton-bottom.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/main-skeleton-bottom.php
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
         ?>
         </div>
     </div>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/jquery.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/browser.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/breakpoints.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/util.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/main.js"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/browser.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/breakpoints.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/util.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/main.js');?>"></script>
 </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/application/views/includes/vertical-head.php b/application/views/includes/vertical-head.php
index 665db75..b8c6ac9 100644
--- a/application/views/includes/vertical-head.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/vertical-head.php
@@ -34,17 +34,17 @@ $this->load->helper('url');
         <!-- Opera Speed Dial Favicon -->
         <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/img/favicon/speeddial-160px.png" />
         <!-- For iPhone 4 Retina display: -->
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery.js"></script>
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery.js');?>"></script>
         <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" sizes="114x114" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/img/favicon/apple-touch-icon-114x114-precomposed.png">
-		<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/<?php echo $vertical['css'];?>" />
-		<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/noscript.css" /></noscript>
+		<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/'.$vertical['css']);?>" />
+		<noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/noscript.css');?>" /></noscript>
         <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans" rel="stylesheet">
         <link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Abril+Fatface&family=Open+Sans:ital,wght@0,700;0,800;1,700;1,800&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">
-        <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.css">
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.js"></script>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.css');?>">
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery/jquery-ui.js');?>"></script>
         <script src="https://momentjs.com/downloads/moment-with-locales.js"></script>
 		<!-- Start cookieyes banner --> <script id="cookieyes" type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn-cookieyes.com/client_data/82ccb0b38ad63612e4c6a3fa/script.js"></script> <!-- End cookieyes banner -->
-        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/style.css">
-        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/css/responsive.css">
-        <script src="<?php echo base_url();?>assets/js/script.js"></script>
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/style.css');?>">
+        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/css/responsive.css');?>">
+        <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/script.js');?>"></script>
 </head>
diff --git a/application/views/includes/vertical-skeleton-bottom.php b/application/views/includes/vertical-skeleton-bottom.php
index 1472753..3b33c40 100644
--- a/application/views/includes/vertical-skeleton-bottom.php
+++ b/application/views/includes/vertical-skeleton-bottom.php
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@
         </div>
     </div>
 </div>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/browser.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/breakpoints.min.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/util.js"></script>
-    <script src="<?php echo SITEURL;?>assets/js/studiobave.js"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/jquery.dropotron.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/browser.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/breakpoints.min.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/util.js');?>"></script>
+    <script src="<?php echo asset_ver('assets/js/studiobave.js');?>"></script>
 </body>
 </html>