I followed all the instruction lissa has on her page for making 404 pages and i cant get it to work! (if you dont know what im talking about go here: http://www.lissaexplains.com/html6.shtml#error ) any suggestions? i did exactly what she said my site doesnt work! help!

there are a number of things that could be wrong. you coudl have saved yoru .htraccess file as .htaccess.txt by accident. or your server might not allow you to have custom 404 pages.