404 Best Practices
Chris Coyier has a great article 404 best practices. A 404 error on the web is what a web server responds with when it is tasked with serving up a resource that it can’t find. Run through this “404 best practices” list and compare your 404 page and see how well it stacks up.
404 Best Practices
- It should still look like your website
- Apologize
- Search
- Give readers useful links
- Way to Contact / Report Error
- Automatic Reporting
- Humor
- Redirect?
- File Size
- What else would you add?
Here are a couple other sites you may want to consider when building your 404 page.
- Google Webmaster Central Blog ~ Make your 404 pages more useful
- A List apart ~ A More Useful 404
- WordPress Codex – Creating an Error 404 Page
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Personally I believe in a hybrid approach, whereby some of the fundamentals of web design should be set in stone, and adhered to. After that, it’s a horses for courses approach, where recommendations trump rules, which are in any case there to be challenged. Apart from white text on a white background of course.
Comment by web development best practices — September 1, 2009 @ 2:17 am
Of course
Comment by Joe — September 10, 2009 @ 10:38 am