One Easy Way To Improve Your Web Site!

I was working on a few things on my site tonight and typed in a file name that didn't work. The page redirected to a 404 page at my hosting company. I'm sure you have seen that happen on sites you have been on - doesn't look very professional does it.

I changed the appearance of my site a few months ago and eliminated some pages and - oops - forgot to upload my custom 404 page. This made me realize it would be a good 'tid-bit' to pass on to you. Here is what you do.

Check the control panel of your hosting company to see what they say the custom 404 page is named. With mine it gave me the ability to do a very general text message, but I knew if I named the page what it was going to name it I could make my own page. In this case it is:

404.shtml

So this is how my 404 page looks (this page does not exist):

http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/error.html

Try your url with error.html and see what comes up. Do you need a custom 404?

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http://www.jbcr-virtualsolutions.com/tips-and-articles.html

Jan