Create a Custom 404 Error Page for Your Blog

Published: September 10, 2007, 10:24 am

When someone comes to a page on your domain that is no longer there (either because it’s been deleted, because they’ve typed something in wrong or because the link that they followed was wrong) they are shown the dreaded 404 ‘page not found’ error page. This error simply means that the person was able to communicate with your server but that the server couldn’t find the page that they were after. 404 error pages come in all shapes and sizes but traditionally are quite often like these: While these sorts of pages certainly communicate that there’s been some kind of error - they don’t really do you or your potential reader any good. In the majority of cases they’ll simply surf away from your website. It need not be this way - Customize Your 404 Page One of the things that I asked Ben to do when redesigning ProBlogger was to put together a customized 404 page for this site. The old one was a fairly poor page that didn’t

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