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@xxxxxxxx> To: <fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > R.Ø.S.A. > Identity: Marky Goldstein > E-Mail: ready@xxxxxxxx > Task: Managing Director > > R.Ø.S.A. Creation. Technology. Intelligence. AG > Seefeldstrasse 231, 8008 Zurich, Switzerland > Phone: +41 1 389 63 33 > Fax: +41 1 389 63 30 > URL: http://www.rosa.com/ > > > > -- > > Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list > >
