Error Message - Development and Tech

HTTP status codes and their uses

Gary Bell on Error Message, Development, SEO, Website | 23 Aug 2019

We all know about HTTP codes, or at least we know there is a 404 one which means not found. Some of us know that there's a 200 code (meaning OK), and that there's some odd ones in the 500 meaning something went bang! Those interested in SEO will be…

Are error messages evil?

Gary Bell on Development, Error Message, LinkedIn | 20 May 2014

A colleague of mine posted a question to us developers for our input. They had read an article on LinkedIn which stated the following, and asked for our thoughts: Error messages punish people for not behaving like machines. It is time we let people behave like people. When a problem…