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
Because of your idea, benharri has modified it so anyone can change the 404 for their web page. Just create a 404.html in your ~/public_html folder. Enjoy!~
Thanks
deepend
On 2019-12-03 8:48 a.m., Bradley Gannon 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.
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
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
Oh, what a nice thing to say to a person. Thank you, I appreciate it.
By the way, your message yesterday about [ThePage](http://tilde.club/~martijn/thepage/) seemed to only be addressed to me, not to the whole mailing list, which I assume wasn't your intention. (It's possible that I'm reading my screen wrong, but it doesn't show up in the archive either.) I mention it here so that others may learn about it, as I did.
Bradley
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, Micah N wrote:
You have a delightful writing style.
Excellent. Thank you for taking care of that. Extra credit for everyone! (But particularly for ~ben.)
Bradley
On Tue, 3 Dec 2019, 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
Hello, Here's my 404 page: https://tilde.club/~mpnordland/404.html I was inspired by all the beautiful gradients Mozilla is using in their stuff lately. I liked how the 404 page so much that I did the same makeover to my main tilde page: https://tilde.club/~mpnordland
Looks great :)
On 2019-12-03 4:45 p.m., mpnordland@tilde.club wrote:
Hello, Here's my 404 page: https://tilde.club/~mpnordland/404.html I was inspired by all the beautiful gradients Mozilla is using in their stuff lately. I liked how the 404 page so much that I did the same makeover to my main tilde page: https://tilde.club/~mpnordland
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
Great job. Way more creative than me. http://tilde.club/~deepend/404.html
I will do better then mine currently is and re-post. :)
Sent from my iPhone
On Dec 5, 2019, at 7:38 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
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
Hah - I hadn’t thought of that at all. I should make a CSS switcher for dark mode, at which point my 404 page will be far more styled than anything else in my tilde.
Alan
On Dec 5, 2019, 8:05 AM -0700, benharri@tilde.club, wrote:
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
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