Comments on: Custom Error Pages

By: Razibul Hassan

Razibul Hassan — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:12:13 +0000

Having a customer 404 page is really important for any business website. People often do typing mistakes and reach to your website on a non-existing page. Having the custom 404 message and items like feature product, link to your homepage, navigation makes sure the user does not go ways to your competitors website.

By: Coat Rack

Coat Rack — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:53:29 +0000

Personally I like to have a custom 404 page that mimics my index page that way people have plenty of links within my site to click on and they don’t come up with the error message which I think makes them simply leave the site

By: Wordpress Designer

Wordpress Designer — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:54:11 +0000

As a young designer, I used to ignore the 404 error page, but as I gained experience, I realized how important a custom 404 is. It is all about usability. How can you help your users find what they are looking fo.

By: Structure of Link Exchange and Article Pages

Structure of Link Exchange and Article Pages — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:04:45 +0000

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By: Nickme

Nickme — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:52:35 +0000

WordPress has its own 404 pages, which use the site template and may be easily setup to include links to existing relevant pages of the site (i.e. index page, main categories and so on).

Another issue with 404 pages is that they need to return the ’404 – Page not found’ in header, in order to be accordingly classified by search engines, but this is another issue …

By: Fatcow Reviews

Fatcow Reviews — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:13:32 +0000

I don’t understand why so many webmasters neglect having custom error pages. When someone follows a broken link or something, they don’t stick around to fix the problem if they see a standard 404 page, they just leave. That is why it is imperative to have custom error pages. Great post!

By: Zack

Zack — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:52:51 +0000

When someone follows a broken link or something, they dont stick around to fix the problem if they see a standard 404 page, they just leave. That is why it is imperative to have custom error pages. Great post!

By: Free Web Hosting VS Paid Web Hosting

Free Web Hosting VS Paid Web Hosting — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:33:07 +0000

[...] problem with free web hosting is that you will not be able to use custom error pages. Error pages are used by the web server to show the visitor there has been an error. For example, a [...]

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:33:43 +0000

I dont understand why so many webmasters neglect having custom error pages. When someone follows a broken link or something, they dont stick around to fix the problem if they see a standard 404 page, they just leave. That is why it is imperative to have custom error pages. Great post!

By: web hosting reviews

web hosting reviews — Wed, 06 May 2009 03:19:13 +0000

Thanks for the post on how to create error pages.
now i can create one.
thanks!.

By: Graphic Design Seminar

Graphic Design Seminar — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:40:39 +0000

I think having a 404 page is nice, it makes whoever went to your site and found a non existing page that you are not letting them down and that they can find their way back onto the path.

By: error 404

error 404 — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 17:20:23 +0000

I agree, a custom 404 error page is a great service to your visitor and can help your bottom line.

By: Press Release Services

Press Release Services — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:50:04 +0000

Great stuff. 404 is an important error page. And the ability to customize it is really awesome. Great job with the post. keep it up. Cheers

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:36:09 +0000

Error 404 Page is very important to company website. : ) Your post is great!

By: Find Broken Links

Find Broken Links — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 19:16:35 +0000

[...] If the website still exists, you will end up at a 404 error page. If the website does not have custom error pages, then you will see a web server error page. When the website does not exist any more, you will see [...]

By: Web Hosting Checklist

Web Hosting Checklist — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:45:22 +0000

[...] You may have also seen errors pages where they are styled exactly like the rest of the website. These are custom error pages. [...]

By: 404 Error

404 Error — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:16:28 +0000

[...] your website hosting has not been set up with a custom error page, the visitor will be sent to a generic web host error page. This is very confusing for the visitor [...]

By: Rostyslav

Rostyslav — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:42:09 +0000

Great post! I dont understand why so many webmasters neglect having custom error pages. When someone follows a broken link or something, they dont stick around to fix the problem if they see a standard 404 page, they just leave. That is why it is imperative to have custom error pages. Great post!