Let a 404 error be an opportunity for you not the death knell to a visit to your site.

How often have you mistyped a file name in a web address? Have you ever clicked on a search result listing link to a dead page?

How many times did this result in the frustratingly uninformative ‘404 - page not found’ thrown up by search engines or, worse, by ISPs flooding your screen with irrelevant ads? What do you? Try again or just go elsewhere? I’d put money on it being the latter!

Just remember how you feel when this happens to you and you’ll understand how important t is for you to make sure this doesn’t happen to your visitors.

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WordPress looks for a .png image file named, screenshot, in your theme’s folder. If you don’t already have a screenshot of your theme, here’s how:

1. Point your browser to the blog currently using the theme.
2. Press the Print Screen button on the keyboard.
3. Open a new file in Photoshop, Gimp or your favorite graphic editor.
4. Change the size to 300 by 225 (in pixels)
5. Press Ctrl + v or Right click > Paste.
6. With the Move tool activated, resize the screenshot to in the 300 x 225 space.
7. Go to File > Save for Web…
8. Save it as a PNG file, instead of GIF or JPG.
9. Name it screenshot.
10. Place your image file in the theme’s folder.

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