{"id":341,"date":"2013-03-01T15:19:02","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blopig.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2013-03-01T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:20:50","slug":"a-free-sweet-valid-html4-site-maintenance-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/a-free-sweet-valid-html4-site-maintenance-page\/","title":{"rendered":"A free, sweet, valid HTML4 “Site Maintenance” page"},"content":{"rendered":"

So today we have moved servers from the cloud to a physically local server and we needed a “Site Maintenance” page. \u00a0A few google searches turned up a simple HTML5 template which I converted to HTML4 and is reproduced hereunder (could not find the original source, aargh):<\/p>\n

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional\/\/EN\"\r\n        \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/html4\/loose.dtd\">\r\n\r\n<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n    <meta http-equiv=\"Content-type\" content=\"text\/html;charset=UTF-8\">\r\n    <title>Site Maintenance<\/title>\r\n    <style type=\"text\/css\">\r\n      body { text-align: center; padding: 150px; }\r\n      h1 { font-size: 50px; }\r\n      body { font: 20px Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #333; }\r\n      #article { display: block; text-align: left; width: 650px; margin: 0 auto; }\r\n      a { color: #dc8100; text-decoration: none; }\r\n      a:hover { color: #333; text-decoration: none; }\r\n    <\/style>\r\n\r\n<\/head>\r\n<body>\r\n    <div id=\"article\">\r\n    <h1>We&rsquo;ll be back soon!<\/h1>\r\n    <div>\r\n        <p>Sorry for the inconvenience but we&rsquo;re performing some maintenance at the moment. If you need to you can always contact us on <b>opig AT stats.ox.ac.uk<\/b>, otherwise we&rsquo;ll be back online shortly!  Site should be back up on Friday 1st March 2013, 16:00 GMT.<\/p>\r\n        <p>&mdash; OPIG<\/p>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n<\/body>\r\n<\/html><\/pre>\n
And here is what it looks like… (nothing glamorous, you have been warned)<\/p>\n
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