CACHE STORAGE

There could be two reasons you cannot see changes to your website, both to do with cache :

1.) Your computer is calling on old stored web pages (called cache).
To retrieve the new site , tell him to force a refresh by holding down the Ctrl key and click browser refresh button.

2.) Some older style ISPs (Internet Service Providers) store frequently used pages in their own cache to save on bandwidth.  You can try the method above but sometimes this does not work until the ISP refreshed the cache.

INCORRECT UPLOAD

1.) You uploaded your files into the root directory instead of the directory called public_html. The directory public_html is the ONLY directory accessible to the general public.

2.) If you are still seeing the Small Pond logo after uploading, it means that your index file (Home Page) is called index.htm. Delete the file called index.html and your home page - index.htm will be called.
The default page calls are in this order :
index.html
index.htm
default.htm
index.php
e.g. : delete index.html and it will then call on index.htm