[ Article ] Use 404-pages to your advantage

[rain]

A very nice idea and tutorial. I know some people have already taken advantage of this, like those so-called internet marketers. Still, that's a good idea, though.

[vynes18]

a very good tutorial, thanks for sharing it with us.
but unfortunely some free web hosting didn't support custom-404 pages.
like 110mb.com, however their had upgraded to clustered server 99.9% uptime.

[nilzerous]

I found this section particularly useful.

What should my 404 page look like?

It is very important to inform your users not to panic. Everything here is nice and fine.

And one more point to add, I've seen few PHP-MySQL based sites which generate rather odd warning messages like "fail to open....", or "Connection failed..". Your guidelines for handling error is applicable to those sites also.

[CrEaToR]

Well this a nice info and i must take advantage of tat

[moneyballs2]

Thanks for this information. I;m starting a website soon and i suppose might as well start with the 404 pages

Some good tips

[-Paul-]

thanks for the nice tutorial dude i will try this out sometime

[haxzen]

Not a bad article, I will have to try it out. Sounds like 404 pages can actually be used to your advantage!

[yskiran@gmail.com]

Originally Posted by Drew

Haha, check mine out :
http://quickgreen.net/404page.html

Friend, the tutorial ... was truly very informative, Atleast to novices like me. I have been trying to google this..but couldnt even find the appropriate key word to search for this.

Army, thanx for a good peice of advice, in simple english.

And, more EMPHATIC is the quickgreen.net/ 404 page..

example, live and practically explained. and with a good lot of pun included.

Thankyou .. i will try to do this.. in a couple of days for my site, and inform you all for your valuable comments.

[army]

I am glad I helped you yskiran .
If you have any questions ...

[onliner]

I'm a student and interested to study web-design, and the overall expenses is more $10000 including all my personal expenses. Is this much money worth spending for web-designing? Is there any free course, am confused.