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I only realized I didn’t yet have a proper 404 Error page, when I saw the link the article The Perfect 404 at digg. It’s an article in A List Apart, published in January 2004 issue.

It’s thorough introduction to guide you to create the error page for your site. Why bother? Because people come to the wrong URL links at your sites/blogs mainly because:

• wrongly typed URL
• faulty referral from other websites
• out-dated links from other websites, or search engine
• moved or deleted pages (moved pages have to return with code 301 — moved permenantly)

You aren’t going to let them just leave away, are you? So it’s better to have some guide on your 404 page.

I didn’t actually following the guide, but just simply create a page to advice the visitors to:

1. Do a site search for what they original come for
2. Go to Home page
3. My English blog or Chinese blog

Think that’s good enough for this little personal website.

An Example