October 6, 2024

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.

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Abduzeedo

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Tobias Ahlin

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Chris Jennings

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Mark Dijkstra

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futureofwebdesign.com

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twurn

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IAMWW

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amyherndonphotography.com

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designzillas.com

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xhtml kitchen

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Christopher Meeks

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Drexler

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Oroza

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Sandand Starfish

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Imaginaria Creative

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The Little Cake Parlour

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Carsonified

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publicitweet

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Salt of the Earth

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Doorstep Dairy

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At First Sigth

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Joyent

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dm11sto.com

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Veerle

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tix02

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Fuelly

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getdropbox.com

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cssremix

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Huwshimi

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turbomilk

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theesthetik.com

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Pixel Thread

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hdqt.co.uk

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Product Planner

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chrisglass.com

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gadies.com

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Sofa

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Project Fedena

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David Hellmann

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Gisele Muller loves communication, technology, web, design, movies, gastronomy and creativity. Web writer, portuguese/english translator and co founder of @refilmagem & @mentaway Twitter: @gismullr

43 Comments

  1. Sayrus Reply

    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.

  2. Helder Amos Reply

    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.

  3. Nico Reply

    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…

  4. ddeja Reply

    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:)

  5. Cheltenham Reply

    Inspiration indeed, – we’re just working on ours at the mo, and it’s really hard to come up with something that ticks all boxes. Need to fix that damn search box too 🙁

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