40 Creative 404 Error Pages to Inspire You
Error pages are often neglected by designers because they are rarely seen, or at least that’s the plan. But we all know things happen. A visitor may incorrectly enter a url, or try to find something on your site that just isn’t there. These are times when the 404 page will receive a few visits, but visiting an error page isn’t necessarily part of a pleasant user experience. That’s why many designers these days are taking a little extra time and effort to get creative with the 404 page. Doing so helps ease frustration by the user and shows an attention to detail. In this post I’ve rounded up 40 Creative 404 Error Pages to Inspire You.
agens
Abduzeedo
Tobias Ahlin
Chris Jennings
Mark Dijkstra
futureofwebdesign.com
twurn
IAMWW
amyherndonphotography.com
designzillas.com
xhtml kitchen
Christopher Meeks
Drexler
Oroza
Sandand Starfish
Imaginaria Creative
The Little Cake Parlour
Carsonified
publicitweet
Salt of the Earth
Doorstep Dairy
At First Sigth
Joyent
dm11sto.com
Veerle
tix02
Fuelly
getdropbox.com
cssremix
Huwshimi
turbomilk
theesthetik.com
Pixel Thread
hdqt.co.uk
Product Planner
chrisglass.com
gadies.com
Sofa
Project Fedena
David Hellmann
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Jun 28, 2010
Typo on the last bits of “At First Sight”
Nice stuff anyway
Jun 28, 2010
Personally i like simple 404 pages so Christopher Meeks’s 404 page is perfect:)
Thanks Gisele..
Jun 28, 2010
I liked the Abdozeedo 404. I’m a big fan of spaceships and they have a great illustration. Thanks!
Jun 28, 2010
AWESOME! thanks!
Jun 28, 2010
Nice examples however you don’t need any page 404… The best way is to make for each bad url 301 redirect to your home page… This technic avoid black hat intentions.
Jun 28, 2010
Great collection!
http://afraid-to-dream.net/404
How about mine?
Jun 28, 2010
Nice Selection.
http://www.niconlyone.com/error/404.html
I deeply think a 404 page need to propose alternative option as a ling or a buton, we can’t propose a dead end page.
btw, have a look at my own one
Jun 28, 2010
A big thumbs up for Mark Dijkstra!
Jun 28, 2010
Cool list!! Thanks for including my 404 page
Jun 28, 2010
Some of these make you want to enter a non-existant URL just to see them, brilliant examples.
Jun 28, 2010
Great collections, thanks…
Jun 28, 2010
here is another great one : http://www.apadeloup.com/sdf
Jun 28, 2010
Cool list – if I may, I would like to add http://blackmoondev.com/404 as well. Cheers
Jun 28, 2010
OK, you now have a fan Gisele! I’m always in awe by your depth and wondering how you find your subject matter…but this time…where or should I say HOW, do you find these. Great research!
Jun 28, 2010
Interesting collection. Nice to add a bit of creativity where most people would not even expect it.
Jun 28, 2010
Really your blog have nice collection of posts. I hope that i’ll come again on your blog.
Thanks for sharing Gisele Muller
Jun 28, 2010
Nice collection, some inspiration there! Another good one over at http://designstuffdaily.com/blahblah
Jun 28, 2010
This is an excelent idea, I’m the kind of person that always make a mistake typping the url of pages and get tones of 404 error pages and I get very upset, but if all the webs have brilliants 404 error pages like those it would be fun to get them.
Jun 28, 2010
Those are a great 404 pages.
Jun 28, 2010
Blizzard Entertainment’s 404 page is quite good too. Too bad I can’t go to it at work
Damn restricted interwebs. Do check it out though. http://www.blizzard.com
Jun 28, 2010
Really Nice !
Jun 28, 2010
This is a really amazing collection of 404 error pages!!!
Jun 28, 2010
I was searching for a list of great 404 error pages around the web, and i got some great list from similar sites and collected the great list. And I can say that the above collections are really great..
Thank you buddy…
Jun 28, 2010
Great collection!
‘Sight’ is mis-spelled for At First Sight
Jun 28, 2010
Really good collections ….
Jun 28, 2010
Thanks so much. I was just looking for an inspiration for my new project and 404 site. This article is exactly what i needed.
Cheers:)
Jun 29, 2010
incredible collections…
Jun 29, 2010
Those “twurn” birdies are quite amusing.
Jun 29, 2010
Great ideas…
Jun 29, 2010
This has inspired me to to update my boring 404 page.
Jun 30, 2010
Hey guys,
Thanks for all comments, pages shared, etc…
It’s really nice to hear back from you!!
=)
Jul 1, 2010
Hi Guys,
love the list, would love to add our 404 http://www.staak.co.uk/404
Keep up the good work!
Jul 2, 2010
Great pages!
This one has always been one of my favorite. If you are familiar with the site, it’s even better!
http://www.homestarrunner.com/404
Jul 3, 2010
Ha, some of them used birds from Twitter 404.
Jul 19, 2010
nice collection for 404 error pages ;D really cool for all of its
Jul 19, 2010
Check out this 404: http://www.holyghostoutdoors.com/not-a-page
Jul 22, 2010
A really cool collection, thank you
Jul 28, 2010
good job!
Aug 13, 2010
Good Ideas!!! Thanks.