I like that it's "pitch black" on a bright white background, nice irony :)

December 5, 2019 9:38 AM, "Alan Schussman" <alan@schussman.com> wrote:

This is cool. I like the idea of a weekly something-to-do a lot. I've made my own 404:
http://tilde.club/~schussat/404.html.

Alan

On 3 Dec 2019, at 12:32, benharri@tilde.club wrote:

December 3, 2019 10:48 AM, "Bradley Gannon" <bradley@tilde.club> > wrote:

Hello, ~clubbers:

Welcome to the first-ever Weekly Webpage Workshop. I've seen many a >> complaint amongst you that
you
don't know what to put on your shiny new ~club webpages. The gleaming >> white blankness can be
intimidating, so I've decided to at least *try* to change that by >> sending out what you might
call
"HTML writing prompts" each week. If you like, try implementing the >> idea yourself, and then
share
and discuss your attempt in this thread. Next week, I'll try to put >> together a participation
summary for your enjoyment.

Yay, thanks for getting this started!

So, onward we march to the first prompt:

**Make a custom 404 page.**

We all know 404 pages. `HTTP 404 Not Found` is the tumbleweed-filled >> wasteland that meets any
traveller of the Internet unfortunate enough to follow a dead link >> (or mistype a URL). Most web
servers don't bother replacing the bland default 404 page that ships >> with their server binary,
and
a good fraction don't even have such pages. Instead, they just tell >> the web server to redirect
404s
back to the homepage, or something boring like that.

A few server admins have the creativity and lightness of heart to >> take a page that normally
creates
frustration or disappointment and make it at least a little fun. Take
[Google](https://http://google.com/404) and >> [Slack](https://slack.com/404) as examples. (Many
more
examples exist; these are just the ones that came to my mind >> immediately.) Your task, should you
choose to accept it, is to build such a page for yourself and host it >> somewhere on your ~tilde.

Maybe consider putting a neat `.gif` or video on your 404 page, or >> perhaps a meaningless
aphorism.
Make it simple or grand, detailed or unpolished. It's up to you.

As far as I'm aware, there's no way to make your 404 page show up as >> the actual 404 page for
your
~tilde without help from ~ben or ~deepend. I'll say that getting your >> 404 page set up on
tilde.club
will be extra credit.

Can I get the extra credit if I set it up? :)

I just configured nginx to server a file called 404.html as the error > page
if it exists in your ~/public_html.

For your consideration, a page that doesn't exist in my webroot and my > very
basic 404 page: https://tilde.club/~benharri/doesntexist.html

Cheers,
~benharri