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

cristina

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.