Graphic Apache Error Pages.

Nando nandox7 at myrealbox.com
Sat Jan 10 14:41:15 UTC 2004


I agree also, that was only a an example of what i meant by a graphical
page. Something with a logo representing Fedora. Of course it misses there a
small explanation of what caused the error, and so on.
But if it was to use already done things, it was better to continue with the
default apache error pages.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marky Goldstein" <ready at rosa.com>
To: <fedora-desktop-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 9:05 AM
Subject: Re: Graphic Apache Error Pages.


> I agree that communication and usability of such pages, wizards, etc.
> must be much clearer and tested in public. Remember, we are here to
> build the best system for our grandmas.
>
> greets,
> marky
>
> Jonathan Marc Bearak wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 16:30, Nando wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Ok, so here it is a sample of i was talking about.
> >>I's quite simple.
> >>
> >>http://icewind.no.sapo.pt/error404.png
> >>
> >>My intencion, was to have a rpm that installed this, changing the
default
> >>ones, that apache brings.
> >>
> >>Making this optional.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >IMHO, that example is worse than the default error page.  Most people do
> >not know what "Error 404" means.
> >
> >Hypothetically, a simple improvement to the default 404 message could be
> >s/URL/(document|file), followed by an explanatory statement like, "You
> >may have typed the wrong web address."
> >
> >Also, looking at /var/www/error/HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var, there are a
> >number of translations that should be taken into account, further
> >complicating things.
> >
> >Just as fedora artwork is designed with consistency in mind, it is up to
> >an individual website to design error pages consistent with the rest of
> >their website.  The default error pages are clean and functional.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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