Customizing the error page in Joomla!
It's the small touches to a website that can often make the difference between a poorly designed website and a well-designed website. One such small touch is to provide a customized error page that is displayed when a visitor to your website attempts to view a page on your website that doesn't exist.
Getting ready
Copy the error.php file in the templates\system directory into your template's directory. For this example, we'll copy it into the templates\rhuk_milkyway directory. This technique is known as template overriding in Joomla!.
How to do it...
Visually, we're aiming to create something that looks a little like this:
At the moment, our error page's file looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> Joomla!error page, customizing<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="<?php echo $this->language; ?>" lang="<?php echo $this...
