404 PAGESWhen I was first starting out, I downloaded a free link checker called Xenu http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html which worked very well, but it kept telling me I didn't have a 404 page. I had no idea of what it was talking about. Every course online at the time didn't seem to cover this page. It was one of those hidden things, that everyone thinks that you know about. First of all it is an error page. So if someone types in a word misspelt on your site, a 404 page comes up. Most of them come up with "Page Cannot Be Found" in horrible black and white. Anyway, I typed in error page and 404 for the search engines and there were quite a few sites that talked about them, also said that you needed to customise them BUT DIDN'T tell you how to do it. Quite frustrating! Then I looked in my CPanel and I can tell you I was very tentative. However, found the error page and hit on it and clicked everything I could see. It then told me I had a 404 page. Great, it was done! Now when Xenu checked it, it was happy and so was I as I had been driving Vic nuts about this 404 page. So, I could now leave you there and you would be about as wise as I was but that would be mean! So I am going to show you how to customise them. Step 1. Organise what you want to say on your error page in your own programme. Whether it be Front Page, XSite Pro, Hot Dog or whatever. This will then give you the html code which you will copy and paste into your CPanel Error Page screen. Go to Error Page to see what it would look like. This was created in XSite Pro in the design part and then I looked at the source code to paste into CPanel. Step 2. To get back end sales, put something that you might like to feature or sell. It is amazing how many people end up at these pages. This is the source code for the page above. Feel free to copy and put your own words in. To change the background colour, look for the <body BGCOLOR = "#FFD900"> . You will notice that the boxes have a white background which is bgColor #ffffff. Just copy and paste onto your website programme page to make it consistent with your site. Step 3. Copy and paste the whole code into the box on the Custom Error Page in your CPanel. You might like only one box, so just delete anything under the first box which is before the line "However Before You Go" The highlighted bit you need to adapt to your site. Hope this helps. <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Rushton-Enterprises </title> <body BGCOLOR="#FFD900"> <DIV align=center> <CENTER> <TABLE title="" style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=700 bgColor=#ffffff border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P align=center><FONT face=Georgia color=#cc0000 size=6><B>Whoops! Landed in the wrong place?</B></FONT><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" face=Verdana>You must have reached this page by mistake. This is what is commonly known as a 404 Error Page. You may have typed in the wrong url, and that is why you ended up here. Never mind just click on this link here <A href="http://www.rushton-enterprises.com/">Rushton-Enterprises </A>and from there you should be able to access all our sites.<B><A target=_blank body < A></B></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></A></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></DIV></FONT> <P></P> <BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P align=center><B><FONT face=Verdana color=#008000 size=5>However before you go... </FONT></B></P> <P></P><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5></FONT></STRONG> <CENTER></CENTER> <DIV></DIV> <CENTER> <TABLE title="" style="BORDER-COLLAPSE: collapse" borderColor=#111111 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=10 width=700 bgColor=#ffffff border=1> <TBODY> <TR> <TD> <BLOCKQUOTE> <P align=center><FONT face=Georgia color=#cc0000 size=6><B>HAVE YOU THOUGHT THAT CHRISTMAS IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></B> <P align=center><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" face=Verdana>So have you given any thought to what you might buy for a friend?</P> <P align=center>What about the new great book "How To Gentle Your Horse". It's on <STRONG>special</STRONG> and will make a great present.</P> <P align=center><A href="http://www.autopilotriches.com/app/netcart.asp?MerchantID=80492&ProductID=2775266"><IMG title="Practical advice for people with horses. For the person who believes training horses shouldn't be that hard ." alt="Practical advice for people with horses. For the person who believes training horses shouldn't be that hard ." src="Ebookcover.gif" border=0><FONT color=#ff0000></P> <P align=center></FONT><FONT color=#cc0000 size=6><STRONG>ONLY $37.95.</STRONG> <STRONG>JUST CLICK HERE</STRONG></FONT></A> <P> <CENTER>Want to know more before making a decision. Then just <A href="http://www.chittering-gullystud.com/A-book-on-training-horses.html"><B>Click Here </B></A>to see more. <P></P></CENTER></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER> |
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