Development custom error pages

i have a webserver runnin and i would like somone to make me some nice lookin custom error pages. free space for anyone who will do it

 

what webserver software are you usin?

pop over to mach-five.com/nonexistantpage.html and see what i got.. thats done really easy with Apache..

-scoob8000

 

nice.......... its microsoft IIS i will go to apache later but i never used it before

 

in apache you just use a .htaccess file that has like this in it..

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.blah.com/404error.html

same thing for all your different errors that you want a custom page for, and just point it to that html file..

in IIS there is a directory full of the error html files, i forget where it is tho..

-scoob8000

 

i know how to do it i just feel like it (takin after lazy) and i dot have html editor

 

use notepad to edit your html files. Don't touch dreamweaver.

 

well........i guess i can use notepad

 

i used to be a hardcore notepad html junkie.. then i found dreamweaver and i love it.. mind you, i use 'code view' not the actual design view.. although, i still find myself in DOS Edit occasionally fixing up something here or there on the fly..

-scoob8000

 

http://www.unm.edu/~cjadams/asl/
http://www.unm.edu/~cjadams/hravp/whatsnew/
http://www.unm.edu/~cjadams/oneseventeen/
http://www.unm.edu/~cjadams/tom/
http://www.unm.edu/~cjadams/wt/

All dreamweaver in code edit...
the proper quote is: never let any program do everything for you, always manage code and know what is going on behind the scenes. Dreamweaver is a tool, not the tool, but it is the best one I've ever used, and it cuts my workload in half. (gives me time to browse the bit forums during work!) Just make your first page in notepad if you get the chance, and use dreamweaver to update and create things based on the original. (I reccomend Dreamweaver MX which I've never had add more than one font tag to a single group of text, contrary to popular belief, and if so, just run the cleanup command)

oh and error pages... sorry for the off-topic rant, tell me this is wrong and I'll delete it...
http://www.unm.edu/~cjadams/doesnotexist.htm
http://www.unm.edu/~employ/doesnotexist.htm
http://www.unm.edu/~cjadams/oneseventeen/doesnotexist.htm
replace doesnotexist.htm with whatever...

 

dreamweaver tends to make my code's layout mess up when i save/open files.

 

I allways use dreamweaver too. Only things I don't like about it is that you can't use the ] button, and it automatically saves the files to .htm files, not to .html files, which results in a complete mess at the link-stuff

 

i use frontpage 2002(xp) but i am too lazy

 

just save it as blah.html instead of just typing in blah........

 

or save it as "blah.html" with the quotes

 

yeah but I'm too lazy to do that / I forget that sometimes

 

or just set all your links to .htm instead of .html

 

dreamweaver likes to complete tags, ie if i type <center> it automatically puts </center> after, which is very annoying at times

 

I don't like programs that generate code for me. The code always ends up being ugly and you want to smack yourself for using it later.

I make websites at a company, and I want to kill the people who used to make sites in Frontpage! The code is ugly, it is compatable with only IE (for the most part) and it isn't even CLOSE to being XHTML.

 

whats xhtml

 

The new standard for HTML. It is tougher on syntax. It's a step towards making HTML a lot nicer to work with

You can read more about it at http://www.w3c.org