Add a custom 404 error page to your site

This is actually very easy and can be done by anybody hosted on a standard server. 

A custom 404 page can be very helpful, it can save people leaving your site and it also adds a nice personal touch to your site. 

My site's here... 

Step 1: Build a page

Make yourself the 404 page you want - I decided to go a bit silly with mine, it's actually just one big image, with an image map overlaid, because that's the way I fancied doing it just then. 

Save your custom 404 page in the root of your site. 

Call it something like "my404" or "errornotfound"

Comments

[possum888]

Very clever! (still can't access your site! I'll try at school...)

I made my own one, but I wanted to make it stand out and give people a jolt if they had their speakers turned up, so heres mine: http://www.geekify.geek.nz/error/404.html

[killerjackalope]

Does the direct address work?

http://killerjackalope.zxq.net/

It's weird that it won't work for you, nice 404, if slightly mean - the dark red and white look well.

[possum888]

Thanks - wanted it to be very bold.

Nope still doesn't work. Pinging the address gives me 'cannot resolve http://killerjackalope.zxq.net/: Unknown host'

I also can't access http://zxq.net either. Must be my ISP then.

[killerjackalope]

I'm an eejit try www.killerjackalope.co.nr as opposed to just http://

[dombeef]

i can connect though

[killerjackalope]

Well that's a start... I don't know, I'll get round to getting a proper host eventually...

[killerjackalope]

Bizarre, think I'll have to get me a spare host, well I can add another two domains from that host, so I'll arrange that and if it doesn't work then it could be worrying, how many ISPs don't cater to that one...

[Dr. Pepper]

That's so funny.

[killerjackalope]

Thanks.