The 404 was treated as a proper page rather than a fallback state.

The number is constructed as an architectural drawing. The 4 and the 0 are formed from walls at true thickness, with furniture laid out inside the resulting rooms and dimension strings running along both edges. It sits inside the same drafting system as the rest of the site rather than borrowing a display typeface.

The error message then repeats. Instead of a single dialog, identical windows cascade back across the canvas, each one carrying the same 404 notice. It reads as a system throwing an unresolved warning over and over, which is the exact behaviour Heron is built to prevent inside a model.

Error pages are never in the brief. They're a good measure of whether a team understood the product or just styled it.

Treating a 404 as an actual page instead of a dead end is such a good instinct, where did the architectural drawing idea come from, personal interest bleeding into the work?

A useful first answer to “How much for a website?” separates a base package, add-ons, and timeline instead of dropping a single unexplained number.

I built QuoteKit for freelancers and small studios who want to show that estimate before the discovery call. Visitors choose a package, extra pages and services, and a timeline; the indicative price updates in the browser. It is bilingual (EN/FR) static HTML/CSS/JS, with rates edited in one config file. The email button prepares a draft in the visitor’s own email app; there is no backend or automatic data collection.

The editable source template is $12 USD, with the ZIP delivered by email within 24 hours of purchase: https://buy.stripe.com/6oU4gA6SE9KPawh7hu4gg00

If you quote small websites, what input would make an estimator actually useful for your process?

Quick update: QuoteKit is now available directly on Contra at $12 USD: https://contra.com/products/57rAWFjr-quote-kit-bilingual-estimate-page-htmlcssjs . Purchases through that page include automatic access to the ZIP after payment. The Stripe link in my original post remains...