I knew I forgot something right before the new design launch today. I didn't get a chance to create custom images for the 404/Captcha/error pages on the TeX site.
Do you have any suggestions?
A few examples from other sites:
Cooking site's 404:
Gaming site's CAPTCHA
Photography site's 404 (Normally for Captcha, we do a "robot" theme.)
The idea is to have these images somewhat light hearted, and reflect the theme of the site. What are your suggestions for this site?
For a 404, there could be a play on some of most common TeX error messages. I think the Undefined control sequence is most appropriate.
As for an image, something simple like this:
\404{Page not found}
! Undefined control sequence.
l.6 \404
Or some variation thereof.
Probably rendered in different styles, to distinguish user input from TeX complaints.
\cdiv would be more more in the spirit of TeX. On the other hand, how many would recognize what it stands for? Perhaps it would be a great inside joke. Oh, what the heck; I'll enter it as an answer so people can vote on it.
Feb 11, 2011 at 14:58
We don't know how you arrived in room 404, but we have been working for a long time to correct all bugs!
Use one of Don Knuth's Road Signs or the Dangerous Bend Sign
What's with something like this:
*\show\page
> \page=undefined.
Maybe in combination with an assign tracing:
{changing \error=0}
{into \error=404}
One possibility is this variant on Martin Tapankov's answer:
\cdiv{Page not found}
! Undefined control sequence.
l.6 \cdiv
Look here if this mystifies you.
