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More options Aug 21 2008, 12:25 am

From: cristina

Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:25:50 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, Aug 21 2008 12:25 am

Subject: Re: An easy way to make your 404 pages useful!

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Hi JMK,
Maybe give the URL of your site,
check if your site returns
HTTP status response 404 (Not Found)
for non-existent URLs.

Another thing is that some browser plug-ins
or firewalls redirect by default to their own
404 error pages when they get HTTP status response 404.

I just tried the Google 404 widget on my site,
if you want look with 'view source' at
http://www.asymptoticdesign.com/test404
at the two script elements towards the end of the page,
where I want the widget to appear.
The content of the widget is in a div #goog-wm
created by the external JavaScript code from Google
called by the code snippet, and
#goog-wm is styled via the <style> element

(I put the <style> element from the
widget snippet in the <head> element to be
valid (X)HTML )

Cristina.

On Aug 20, 9:54 am, JMK wrote:

> are there open and closing tags when cutting and pasting the java
> script? I cut and paste and nothing.

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