Hi Kids! Happy Labor Day Weekend! I hope you're out grilling something
or having some fun with family and friends. Myself, I'm busy
working. What else is new? I'm a day My other half did go out to have fun today. He wanted me
to go but I have way too much work to do and just couldn't
take the day off. I'm sure he'll have enough The weather certainly has cooled off here in Northeast Ohio. I went out to Brunswick yesterday which is about 45 miles from my house, about a 45 minute run, to visit family and it was only like 70 degrees when I left. As you know I have a hard top Wrangler and I have the top off for the summer. Of course, all week it was so hot you couldn't breathe but since I was taking a nice drive it had to get cooler. You'll learn this is my luck in life. Some kind of "family curse" according to my Father. Anyway, I was smart enough to take a sweater and my Jean
jacket. I didn't get home until almost 8:30 at night and by
that time the sun had gone down. The last 10 miles was freezing.
My teeth were chattering. Two guys in a mustang pulled up
next to me on the freeway and gave me the "that's cool"sign
with their upraised fist, like they were saying "you
go girl". So sweet of them to give me some physical The moral of the story here? When you take your top off there's going to be days when you freeze. Point noted. "Well, it's time to say goodbye for the summer....."
Yep, it's almost over.....I don't want it to end. Old man
winter is a pain in the rear and I for one am not ready I'd love to hear your comments over at our discussion board. This week's winner for a free ad is....Charlotte of http://www.lovegiftz.com For your own chance to win fill in the survey. You'll find the link at the very bottom of this ezine. A winner is pulled twice a month. Enter now. Thanks for joining me, let's get to the good stuff. If you have any comments you can send them to Me.
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"How to Create a "Custom 404 Error Page"
and Get Your Lost Visitors Back"
By Merle http://MCPromotionsPress.com
One thing that's certain on the Web is nothing stays the same for very long. This is especially true when it comes to pages of your website. When you first create your site you may think you'll never need to alter the structure. But as your site grows, chances are there will come a day when you need to move or change the names of existing pages.
So what's the problem, you ask? Well, if you've been busy promoting your website (and you should be) specific pages are going to be out there in "cyberspace" listed in search engines, on other websites in the form of link swaps, in directories, articles, etc. It would be impossible to contact all of these people and give them the new url- So what's a Webmaster to do? Create a custom 404 error page.
A custom 404 error page is a special HTML page that you create on your server that automatically comes up if someone types in a wrong url, misspells a url, or tries to call a page from your server that no longer exists. By creating one of these pages you can capture what would be "lost traffic" and send them to the correct place or guide them to a new page.
So what does a good custom error page contain? There are important ingredients you'll want to include:
1) Contact Info: Tell them how they can reach you by email or phone.
2) Brief Explanation: Tell them why they have reached a page that no longer exists or has been moved and give them other options.
3) Include a valid link menu, site map or search function
so they may still find what
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So now that you know what to include in your error page you need to create it, and give it a name --something like "error404.html."
Once that's done, you need to connect to your web server and look in the root directory for a file called .htaccess You may not see it using your FTP program because all files that start with a dot are hidden under UNIX and Linux systems. You can fix that by changing your file display filter to "-la" (list all).
If you still don't see it you'll need to create it. Make sure it is named with the .dot in front of the htaccess, like this: .htaccess. If the file is already there, open it up and add the complete path to your error page like this:
ErrorDocument 404 http://YourDonain.com/404errorpage.html
Make sure the text is all typed on 1 line and you leave a space on both sides of the 404 part and that the E and the D in ErrorDocument is in caps.
Now just FTP this revised .htaccess page and your 404errorpage.html up to your server and you're done. Test it by typing an incorrect url into your browser and make sure your new error page is working correctly.
From now on you'll never need to worry about losing another
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By helping your visitors get to where
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