When a user attempts to follow a broken link or mistypes a url on a website, the user will often be redirected to a typical friendly "404 Not Found" web page so he knows what has happened, instead of throwing some ugly error message.
One way to enhance the experience would be to guess where the visitor intended to go and suggest that page or shows a list of possible pages. An article by the Smashing Magazine describes an approach that makes use of Google's Custom Search API for this purpose. Before embarking onto the implementing it on production, please do note that the free tier for this API has a limit of 100 calls per day.
» A Better 404 Page | Smashing Magazine
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Google url shortener service, goo.gl , is now much improved with newly included features like easier copy and paste, and ability to delete e...
-
This is the Indonesian 2-year old baby who smokes 40 cigarettes a day . He is completely addicted! Visit here to view more of the todd... -
If you have been reading the mainstream media or the social media, it is likely that you would have heard of SimplyGo - an initiative by the... -
Installed FortiClient recently but the challenge in disabling the application/service from running automatically on every start-up annoyed m...
No comments:
Post a Comment
Do provide your constructive comment. I appreciate that.