70 Unique Examples Of 404 Error Pages For Your Inspiration
Valters Bergspics
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?
1. Gog.com
2. Css-tricks.com
3. Blizzard.com
4. Bluedaniel.com
5. Chelmsfordlibrary.org
6. Henrikhedegaard.com
7. Livadaru.net
8. Southparkstudios.com
9. Mailchimp.com
10. Propeller.com
11. Mixx.com
12. Surfingonstatic.com
13. Wulffmorgenthaler.com
14. Spongebob.nick.com
15. Tinsanity.net
16. Douh.com
17. Orangecoat.com
18. Apartmenthomeliving.com
19. Slonky.com
20. Patterntap.com
21. Acromediainc.com
22. Carsonified.com
23. Huwshimi.com
24. Jhuskisson.com
25. Sinisterbunny.com
26. Deviantart.com
27. Eternalmoon.com
28. Cssremix.com
29. Agens.no
30. Abduzeedo.com
31. Hootsuite.com
32. Chrisjennings.com
33. Robo.to
34. Shelfworthy.com
35. Thewebmotel.com
36. Youcastr.com
37. Clubpenguin.com
38. Fryewiles.com
39. Twurn.com
40. Unitinteractive.com
41. Gnolia.com
42. Leapanywhere.com
43. Project-euh.com
44. Beta.Mnet.co.za
45. Dawdle.com
46. Cubeecraft.com
47. 24-7media.de
48. Habrahabr.ru
49. Twingly.com
50. Mutacao.com.br
51. Kidmondo.com
52. Springload.co.nz
53. Getdropbox.com
54. Dazeofourlives.com
55. Redtag.com
56. Wufoo.com
57. Dundeeliving.co.uk
58. Berganblue.com.au
59. Lookitsme.co.uk
60. Kochatelier-berlin.de
61. Craigslist.org – ASCII
62. Limpfish.com
63. Homestarrunner.com
64. Beanstalkapp.com
65. Bol.com
66. D20srd.org
67. Odopod.com
68. Trubru.co.uk
69. Rareview.com
70. Jayelgibson.com
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jeff szuc
Posted 9 days ago 55Some 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. Here’s what I came up with: http://blog.jeffszuc.com/404
That being said, my use is a little different as my whole site’s one big 404 now.
Dainis Graveris
Posted 9 days ago 56hehe, great idea, Twitter computers flying around! love it!!!
otto
Posted 117 days ago 54It’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.
Here’s how we solved that http://www.rolluikshop.be/404
There’s a reference to the product and some helpful info.
Mark
Posted 162 days ago 53http://www.riluri.com/404error.php
This is and interesting one. Drag the green slider in the middle of the screen.
Hope you enjoy it :)
Lebrah
Posted 167 days ago 52Did you know that you can earn money with your 404 pages? Without doing much job?
Just set it and forget it and let the money roll in.
Read more at: http://www.404secrets.com/404/?thankyou-page=45920
dd
Posted 191 days ago 51Here is one more creative 404 error page – http://themeforest.net/item/modern-custom-404-error-page/409934
Andrew
Posted 250 days ago 50Thanks for sharing the nice collections.
I thought of sharing my simple page, too.
http://www.accessoryworld.net.au/error
Carolina
Posted 281 days ago 49Excellent collection. Here’s mine http://www.carolinakaucher.com/404
Rain
Posted 370 days ago 48tehee! I like the ones from Css-tricks ^.^
thanks for a very inspiring round up.
Rean John Uehara
Posted 417 days ago 47Star Wars inspired 404: https://github.com/404
Obnoxiousoldman
Posted 417 days ago 46You have to see this one http://monkeychucker.com/missing.html
Julia Kravchenko
Posted 453 days ago 45http://rssicons.pl/404 =)
Jack Moore
Posted 496 days ago 43We really think our 404 is the coolest and funniest 404, please check it out:
http://www.kitedigital.co.uk/404
Dainis Graveris
Posted 495 days ago 44ah nice!!! cool share!
Ranni
Posted 508 days ago 42Here is an example custom 404 page for you:
http://site-o-matic.net/404
Ben Brughmans
Posted 594 days ago 41Nice examples. We tried to create a funny 404 page for our new website too: http://www.multimedium.be/404
mery
Posted 602 days ago 40I love these …
Geoff Jackson
Posted 618 days ago 39The Blue Daniel one is awesome, I remember seeing this one some time ago, it is so lifelike :)
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Contractor Florida
Posted 622 days ago 38These are really unique and amazing 404 pages. I never seen this before.
Jason
Posted 629 days ago 37Ha, I really like the robot and the Homer Simpson inspired ones!
Francisco Mato
Posted 636 days ago 35Really 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
Dainis Graveris
Posted 636 days ago 36Nice addition! Thanks for thumbs up Francisco!
Nick
Posted 636 days ago 34My cinematic 404 page :P
http://www.nikosk.com/404
element321
Posted 642 days ago 33Great 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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turgay temir
Posted 644 days ago 32nice :)
See this page too:
http://www.ortakantin.com/404
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