If you are deleting content from your site and that page was getting any kind of traffic then you might want to use a redirect to somewhere else on your site.

The best way to do this (platform independent of what browser/OS the user has) is to use a php redirect using the php header function.

Note 1: Php must be installed and running on your server, obviously.

Note 2: This only works if your content was in a php file to begin with. Putting this in an html/htm will not work unless your server is specifically set up to execute php scripts inside files with these extensions.

Note 3: The following code sends a 301 header to the browser, you can change the first line to whatever code you want to send(401, eg.)

Note 4: The ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'])) variable simply takes you to the root of your server (your home page usually).

Code:

<?php
// Permanent redirection
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header( 'Location: http://' . ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']));
?>

For those withougth the ability to run php:
The javascript way of doing it...

Code:

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript"> 
<!--
 function getgoing()
  {
    top.location="http://someplace.com";
   }
 
   if (top.frames.length==0)
    {
     alert("You will be redirected to our main page in 10 seconds!");
     setTimeout('getgoing()',10000);
     }
//--> 
</SCRIPT>