[Best Practices] Web Accessability Standards

About a week ago I launched a new website for the AccessABILITY Student Union at the University of Oregon (with a kickass CMS built on the jQuery UI). Coding the new site meant paying extra-special attention to web accessibility standards. So I thought I’d share some tips with you for making your websites more accessible to your visitors. Web accessibility also benefits people without...

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Generating useful error pages with Pound

Generating useful error pages with Pound

We use Pound as a reverse-proxy and loud-balancing frontend to our web cluster here in the office. Today we had some NAT problems with our proxy server and ended up with some server downtime. Pound defaults to outputting a cryptic error message when it can’t reach a valid host: The service is not available. Please try again later. This isn’t very helpful to clients who probably have...

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