[ Article ] Use 404-pages to your advantage

[army]

Originally Posted by 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.

You can study all by yourself . Just go to the shop, and buy books costs a lot (very!) less .
There are some good books out , but of course, if you want to have a job later in the branche, you should go to college .

[-Paul-]

i found a 404 not found page lol i might try registering it

i heard that when you go on a website for so long that they swop servers with another site and that they\ "other site" goes down when you type it in so then

my mate bought a domain yourcoke.com then he took the server to thyelite then he lost yourcoke as when you typed it in it said page cannot be found then they took the advantage and bamm gone.

[vynes18]

Actually what means of pages 404?
is that the site over bandwidth and show this pages?
I saw 110mb.com(their pages 404), they can put bidvertiser.
Can i custom a pages 404 like them? put my own ppc code.

[-Paul-]

no i dont think you can i thiought they were just down and 404 either coz the site was under maintenance or shut down

[army]

404-error is when the page doesn't exist (anymore?) on the server.

[xFOrCE]

hey man thanks for this tutorial it is nice. I will try it on my sites.

[Blasphemy]

Great tutorial. <a href="javascript:history.back()">Click here to go back.</a> will direct back to the last page when you click the link. Alternatively, you could use a javascript timer to automatically go back.

[meknassi]

plz i didn't uderstand how to make it exactly who can expalin more?
but thanks anyway

[army]

Originally Posted by meknassi

plz i didn't uderstand how to make it exactly who can expalin more?
but thanks anyway

Look here:
http://www.betlik.com/htaccess-tutorial-t922.html

[_cdotech_]

True, you don't want losing visitors even from 404's error page. So I usually customize this page, place links going back to the main page and other pages I have available. This also works when you have broken links. This way, you always give your visitors an option to move on to a different section in your website rather than having them leave completely.