carlcamera:Now if you wanted to provide some sort of textual introduction above your sitemap, you could put both variables next to each other in a template.  I just haven't done that. And of course, now that the search engines would get a 404 if we don't put an article in the section, I'll need to remember to add that article ...

You might not think about 404 "Page Not Found" very much, but I've been thinking a lot about it recently. Vine Type was designed to issue soft 404s since its inception -- meaning if your url requests an article or section that doesn't exist, a blank page will be shown.  This is mainly because I really didn't think about ...

This is best done at the web server level -- through the IIS management console.  The default 404 action is to generate a generic error.  You can specify a URL (aspx page if you want) for all 404s and that page will be displayed with your helpful information and explanations. I searched for "iis custom 404" and got several ...