When you are on the internet and you end up seeing one of them random, silly and unusual custom 404 pages. This blog will help you know how to make them and put it on your own website. Custom 404 pages can be helpful and can solve issues that you may not know you had.
What 404 pages are for
404 Pages are an invisible code sent by your web server and tells the computer or search engine that the page is not there, this could be for reasons like you moving a page or someone has miss spelt a URL.
What to put on your 404 page
Some people may not know a 404 page is an error so putting that fact on the page will help them, try to put information about what has happened and how to get the page you want. It will need to be informative as leaving viewer at a dead end will cause them to leave, giving them something to go back on will help make them stay at your site.
How it can be used for you
You can make your 404 page give you information about what caused the error and can help you stop it from happening again.
What your 404 page can be used for
- Give funny and entertaining 404 pages, makes your site look less boring, but still provide information to your viewers
- Let your viewers fill out a form of what went wrong
- Give customer service links
- Use any information you have got to fix the problems