Donovan is a Dublin-based front-end developer with a passion for CSS, animation and making the web fun. He writes and runs courses at CSSAnimation.rocks and blogs on other web topics at Hop.ie.
If the 404 doesn’t help your visitors, then what’s the point of having carefully crafted memes, funny GIFs, or odd interactive games? A visitor could find themselves on a 404 page for one of many reasons: a mistyped address, a bad link from somewhere else, a deleted page or content that has moved elsewhere. While you can prevent errors from moved pages with redirects, you can’t control people’s mistakes. In this article, Donovan Hutchinson will show you how to have a better 404 page.
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