
Web maintenance is indeed an inevitable, yet important part of web development. And when a website is being updated, sometimes, it has to go offline, which means both human visitors and search engine robots cannot access the whole website. And the best practice during the downtime period is to use the 503 status code or maintenance page, this is to advise the web visitors that the website is currently under maintenance. However, just because your website is down, it does not mean that you will have to be less creative when it comes to the design of your maintenance page.