January 16, 2004
The Perfect 404
by Ian Lloyd
No matter how carefully you design and structure your site, visitors will sometimes request missing, moved, or non-existent pages. A well tempered 404 error page will plunge these visitors back into the flow of your site. Ian Lloyd shares strategies for crafting the perfect 404.
Previously in A List Apart
In last week’s issue, we published two smart articles on CSS layout: Faux Columns by Dan Cederholm shares an easy way to control the display of multi-column layouts. (We use the same technique in the layout of this magazine.) And Elastic Design by Patrick Griffiths combines the strengths of fixed-width and “liquid” layout to exploit monitor capabilities and satisfy differing visitor font size requirements.
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