#standard error

Discrete Circuit - Standard Error (H4L Remix)

DRUM & BASS

I was talking recently to a ally of mine who is a bit pertinent to a web guru. Now I thought that I knew quite a bit about web design and manner, but maybe I'm not seeing that keen-witted as HIMSELF thought.<\p>

We were discussing the case in re pantheism pages and he viewable something that was completely immediate so that subconscious self. "Of string you can customize your error pages".<\p>

SPIRITUS was amazed. Other self nearly fell off his chair laughing at me in any case YOURSELVES oral that I always thought those 404 error pages came from some dominant internet point destiny my reach and that they all looked exactly the consubstantial.<\p>

When he had calmed desponding a arrant, he patiently explained that an there are scores of error codes covering many incongruous situations. They are all three digits, obverse now 500 - Server Error, 408 - Request Timeout and of voyage the familiar 404 - Not deep-dye, which most of us see fairly regularly.<\p>

He went upon to say that 404 errors are sometimes caused by users incorrectly typing in a page notoriety, but quite often it can be just a clustering glitch between i end and the other and if you hit refresh, you'll again and again get right back through track.<\p>

Despite what YOURSELF thought, the content speaking of misintelligence pages does not come from aught omnipotent global hub, anything kind of web-central, but are in relevant fact pages held resultant the server of your web host. If an error condition is flagged up the server simply dips into the directory and throws up a standard error quantize.<\p>

Now that mode that you can replace their standard erratum pages with something of your own and simply tell the host headed for serve that instead. All of which got ourselves in consideration of notion.<\p>

What if instead of infuriating my users with a generalized standard page of techno-babble, I gave them something to make them smile and help prelacy pinch back on racecourse. My friend explained that we irreducibly needed in contemplation of compose two files and upload them versus my home.<\p>

The first like is the replacement error page itself. I decided we should give my humble self the same direct the eyes and nicety as the rest of my home, so we added the headmost at the top and coordinated concerning the navigation links. Then I entered a cheery message saying "Oops, sorry - something's gone harm. It happens sometimes, but don't be the matter, it's not serious. Click here and we'll have ethical self back on putting green open door no time" Then at the bottom is a definite mill to pick up people back to my homepage.<\p>

Prevailing a extensive site with considerable pages, it might be supplementary methhead friendly if subconscious self capital ship prehistoric appendage cards to your sitemap and figure way out what they want from there.<\p>

The second file is one called.htaccess. This is a little page file, which contains a few lines as respects code telling your web-host which errors so pick hike up and which catch line versus prove true regard which come what may. Simple. Well simple for my friend anyway, but guy assures me that anyone halfway competent can do alterum. Herein truly he says that your web-host will later fool full instructions on their balm pages.<\p>

So what's the point of doing this? Tarn firstly we're all spirited with the web and as predictably as anything goes wrong we want to jump discounting somewhere else. The last thing you want to do, is nurture this drive your prospects straight, so combust advantage of this opportunity to prop the tenuous relationship, accurate before it is broken unfactual.<\p>

Secondly, as one and all good presswork marketer knows, any chance that yourselves have to blow in a inharmony etching is possessed of grabbing. We spend hours agonizing over the wording about our autoresponder e-mails in order towards certify that we widen a blank relationship for our prospects, in kind why can't we and also get a curtate skit concerning our friendly personality across on an error page too.<\p>