Way back, about 2 weeks ago Justin over at Confessions of an Undercover Geek, wrote an article about 404 pages or those aweful errors you get when you can’t get to where you want to on a web site. So I decided to look at mine. Found out after I made some changes to my site I didnt have a 404 page, or any other error pages. In addition to creating my error pages I decided to store my wordpress in another directory and set up my sitemap so that google could better archive my site. Making searching easier for the user. Below are some great links that helped me along with this process.

Giving Wordpress it’s own directory
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Editing_Rewrite_Rules_.28.htaccess.29

Setting up Error Pages
http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Error_404_Page
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/perfect404/
http://www.evolt.org/article/mblog/4090/4299/

Setting up Sitemaps
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final
https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview

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