library 404 pages

[Nina Mchale]

LOL, I put, "You broke it!" on our intranet site's 404 page at my last job,
and the techie humor was NOT appreciated. :D No one seemed to get past that
line to see the following one, which read, "Just kidding! This is what
really happened..."

Nina

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:31 PM, wylie ackerman <wyliea at dpls.lib.or.us>wrote:

>  Not specific to libraries, but last year Slashdot had a story on
> creative 404 pages:
> http://idle.slashdot.org/story/11/06/28/1558220/30-creative-404-error-pages.
> I kind of like Blizzard’s -http://us.blizzard.com/foo****
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> Here's a funny one from UVA:****
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> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Roy Tennant <roytennant at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm still rather proud of this 404 page I created for the Digital Library
> SunSITE at UC Berkeley back in the 1990s:****
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> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com>
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> What's on your 404 page for your library's site?
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> I'm shooting for lighthearted, even funny, but most importantly
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