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.
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.
Fly, you fools! And have fun,
Bradley