The ability to add a custom “ Page Not Found
” (eg. a “404”) message to your blog, is one of the new features recently introduced into Blogger blogs
. A Customized 404 page
allows you to easily guide your blog readers on how to navigate or link back to your blog should in case the blog reader navigates to a broken link on your blog or to a page that is temporarily down.
By default, your Blogger Error page will display this error message below:
Now, that it can be customized, I have edited mine. You can see what my error page looks like here . The customized 404 page of my blog, as at the time of publishing this post is shown below:
You can also customize your blog’s 404 page via the Blogger settings.
==> Log in to your Blogger dashboard (Ensure you are using the new Blogger dashboard)
==> Go to Settings
> Search preferences
> Custom Page not Found
.
==> Click Edit
to open the text box. Type what you would like to appear on the page, then click Save changes
.
You can use simple HTML or CSS (if your template has a style file loaded), if you want to get more creative than using standard text. Below is a simple creativity using basic html.
That’s all.
If you need more help, feel free to use the comment form.
Cheers!
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