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What does 404 error page mean? It’s just a page that shows up when user tries to browse the page that doesn’t seems to exist anymore – link may be broken, moved, or even it has never existed and never will. Popular and good looking pages will always have good 404 error pages both from creative and functional point of view. Why? – if user hits such error page, it should do the best to help reader find what he is searching for, otherwise he will go away and may never come back.
Let’s check some really well done error pages to get inspiration for our own creative 404 page?
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Monday, February 13th, 2012 18:45
Some of these are great. I’ve just recently moved my blog address and decided to do something more creative with all the broken links this has created.
That being said, my use is a little different as my whole site’s one big 404 now.
Monday, February 13th, 2012 20:50
hehe, great idea, Twitter computers flying around! love it!!!
Friday, October 28th, 2011 11:31
It’s great to see how much effort is put into 404 pages.
Graphics and design are important for the creative side of a page, but the user should get some helpful info too.
Not everyone knows what a 404 means.
Saturday, June 18th, 2011 08:04
Thanks for sharing the nice collections.
I thought of sharing my simple page, too.
Thursday, February 17th, 2011 22:24
tehee! I like the ones from Css-tricks ^.^
thanks for a very inspiring round up.
Thursday, October 14th, 2010 20:07
We really think our 404 is the coolest and funniest 404, please check it out:
http://www.kitedigital.co.uk/404
Monday, June 14th, 2010 20:04
The Blue Daniel one is awesome, I remember seeing this one some time ago, it is so lifelike :)
Friday, June 4th, 2010 01:20
Ha, I really like the robot and the Homer Simpson inspired ones!
Friday, May 28th, 2010 06:23
Really great post. I love your site and all inspiration examples you give for us, web designers. I wish to share this beauty example of 404 pages, with all your users: http://www.greensewn.com/404a
All the best and keep with your inspiration.
Francisco
Friday, May 21st, 2010 22:43
Great collections. I have seen some of these before, but Jayelgibson one and several the others are new ones I haven’t seen before.
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Sumeet Chawla
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 14:52
Nice collection.. What do you guys think of my 404 page? :)
Here is a link:
http://www.code-pal.com/404page :D
Will
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 15:39
Nice, clean, and simple. I like it.
A suggestion though, if I may.. Rather than letting defunct links hit your 404 page, and linking from there to the old version of your site, you would probably be better off setting up 301s to redirect to the new working url.
ngassmann
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 00:32
I love these. Many I have seen already, but a few are new. Good list overall. I employed a little humor in some block pages here at my day job. A little creativity and wit goes a long way in what could normally be considered boring pages.
Cerbere
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 14:08
Very creatives and funny pages!
Dagny Taggart
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 15:52
How many times have we seen this post around the design circles?
And I love how the two 404 pages with Homer Simpson are right next to each other in the “Unique” 404 pages post.
Cool designs, sad excuse for an article.
Dainis Graveris
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 08:16
of course you have a point, with such huge competition it’s really hard to offer something fresh, unseen and original! We try our best though and hope you still recognize many good examples making this post valuable.
Tedi
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 17:09
Great list guys! Check out mine as well: http://www.tkdesigns.tv/404
Joe Fitzsimmons
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 14:49
I can’t remember the site, but they had a great 404 page that had a picture of a cat being attacked by servers. If someone remembers, let me know.
Greg
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 20:27
Take a look at my site (if you want). Shameless self plug: http://gregdougherty.com/404
Dainis Graveris
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 08:14
interesting comment ;D definitely I came there looking for Home Alone trailer ;D
Amby
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 12:29
I’ve found Nokia’s 404 recently, which is not a great design, but a nice example for connecting from an 404 error to some marketing msg: http://www.nokia.com/404
It must be quite new, as free navigation is something that was announced recently.
adé
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 14:07
I like it !
See this page too : http://mamethoderangement.com/404.html
Prabhu.c
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 14:06
Nice 404 images!!!
Take a look at this 404 link http://www.ciaroscuro.com/404
inspirationfeed
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 03:06
I hate to be a downer but I’ve seen all of these before on other posts.
James
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 09:01
There are some really creative examples there. Thanks for the post! Really inspiring!
Cheers,
James