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Thread: TIP: CREATING A CUSTOM 404 PAGE
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admin
Advanced Member Joined: Jun 14, 2003 Post Count: 2933 Status: Offline |
TIP: CREATING A CUSTOM 404 PAGE The 404 page is the page displayed if someone tries to reach a page on your website that does not exist. Most of the time, it�s because the visitor mistyped the URL or maybe because you renamed a page � You might be surprised to hear that 404 pages will probably be one of the most seen pages in your website! All web servers like Apache and IIS have a default 404 page that is displayed to people � this page is just a simple HTML page like any other. Because 404 pages are just simple HTML pages, you can change the default 404 page to a page that displays anything you want. So instead of the generic �this page does not exist� message that tells your visitors nothing, you can put up an informative page that will help them find what they are looking for. One good idea is to take your site-map page, and make it the 404 page for your website. Another idea would be to make your 404 page a search page where people could search your site. How do you tell the web server, where your new customized 404 page is sitting? This is something you have to ask your host do for you. Just ask them about allowing you to do this, and they should be able to make the quick change to their servers. On my servers, I just tell the web server to look for the 404 page for particular website in the root of the website. If this last sentence makes no sense to you, then you need to read my tutorial on basic web design.  ---------------------------------------- Stefan Mischook Video Tutorial Store | Web Templates ---------------------------------------- [Edit 3 times, last edit by admin at Feb 15, 2005 7:55:14 AM] |
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6287 Status: Offline |
LOL - it is irritating to get 404s so some suggest why not make the humorous? So the people get a laugh.... Area 404 - the best 404 messages on the internet. ---------------------------------------- Gu.aal kwsh� yak'�i it�akw ijeet wugood�k LSW-WebDesign.com |
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lm
Advanced Member Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Post Count: 2550 Status: Offline |
hi, is it something i could do now because i redone my website but slightly changed the title (link) of one of my pages but i saw that in cache in some search engines the link still exist to the old one still exist and it gives that 404 page. I mean if i redirect this old link to the new one using 404 page in this particular case? ---------------------------------------- My blog |
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dawg
Advanced Member Joined: Jan 7, 2005 Post Count: 340 Status: Offline |
This thread just reminds me to update mine, this was done, after a trip to Austin and saw deers like crazy. http://cafe789.com/kyles_eyes/index221.php |
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6287 Status: Offline |
Im, well you can not do that so simply as the 404 comes up in any form of error, so other pages as well. You can simply add a notation on the 404 that that pages link has changed, or better just build a simple plain HTML page with a note that: "the page name has changed, it is now found under [new page name as link] and you will be automatically transfered in (20?) seconds" Then use the meta tags to reload the new page. ---------------------------------------- Gu.aal kwsh� yak'�i it�akw ijeet wugood�k LSW-WebDesign.com |
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lm
Advanced Member Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Post Count: 2550 Status: Offline |
lsw hi, you lost me somewhere - i mean as i understand - the simpliest way now - if i changed the name of a page is to create a html page with the old name of a page and there i should what ?- place a link to my new page? or as you said : "Then use the meta tags to reload the new page." i think i need a tutorial - how to write meta tags to reload new page  Or you could just as well redirect me to some article about it ---------------------------------------- My blog |
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6287 Status: Offline |
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3;URL=http://www.killersites.com/"> This is one of my favorite tags. This META HTTP-EQUIV tag tells the browser that in three seconds it should automatically load the page listed in the URL attribute; in this case http://www.killersites.com. This is a useful tag when you need a simple redirect. If you recall, I used this on the page you used to sign up for this newsletter. With this tag you set the delay (before someone is redirected) in seconds (we used three seconds in the above example) to any destination on the web. Create a basic page for yourself and give it a go. From Stef's Meta Tags article here at KS. (Thanks for pointing it out Les!) ---------------------------------------- Gu.aal kwsh� yak'�i it�akw ijeet wugood�k LSW-WebDesign.com |
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lm
Advanced Member Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Post Count: 2550 Status: Offline |
hi , i like this article  http://www.killersites.com/articles/newslette...ewsletter_March4_2004.htm But should i add this meta tag: <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="3;URL=http://www.mywebsite/"> in all my pages or only in index.html? ---------------------------------------- My blog |
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LSW
Advanced Member USA Joined: Nov 27, 2003 Post Count: 6287 Status: Offline |
No you should not use that at all really. That is what you should use for your problem. Creat a simple HTML page and place that Meta in the header and name it the old name of the page the search engines are still sending people to. Change the address to the new name of the page. Now if the SE sends someone to the old page it will send them on to the new page. That is the only time you should use it. Search engines do not really like that Meta tag as the Porn spamers have used it far to often to send you from Harmless domain names to porn sites. However using it on occasions when you change page names is OK. ---------------------------------------- Gu.aal kwsh� yak'�i it�akw ijeet wugood�k LSW-WebDesign.com |
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lm
Advanced Member Joined: Oct 27, 2004 Post Count: 2550 Status: Offline |
hi, I've done it all and its working!  Many thanks. ---------------------------------------- My blog |
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