hey well im trying to customize my 503 error page but instead it stays the same i tried changing the folder its in called error but still stayed the same does anyone have a way around to change it.....and i tried google, and search but not quite what im looking for :s

Are you on UNIX / Windows? What control panel are you using?

i am on unix and am using webmin

I am not familiar at all with webmin or UNIX - mainly Windows and a few of those panels. Your question might be better off in the technical section actually.

Which error page are you trying to modify?

you can try creating the following...

400.shtml- Bad request
401.shtml- Authorization Required
403.shtml- Forbidden
404.shtml- Page not found
500.shtml- Internal Server Error

Upload into your space and see how they work...
when you are creating your pages make sure that you hard code
all images or they may not show up.
example (IMG SRC="http://www.domain/imagefolder/image.gif")

hope this helps :)

Did you edit your .htaccess file?
You have to create/edit an entry like this in that file:
ErrorDocument 503 /your_custom_503_error_file.html
Or an absolute url:
ErrorDocument 503 /http://www.yourdomain.com/your_custom_503_error_file.html

If you don't know how to edit or create the .htaccess file google for some tutorials.

Hope this will help. I'm no expert though.

In cPanel just go to error pages and you can edit them there easily.