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
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
Typo on the last bits of “At First Sight” 😉
Nice stuff anyway
Personally i like simple 404 pages so Christopher Meeks’s 404 page is perfect:)
Thanks Gisele..
I liked the Abdozeedo 404. I’m a big fan of spaceships and they have a great illustration. Thanks!
AWESOME! thanks!
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.
Great collection! 🙂
How about mine? 🙂 https://afraid-to-dream.net/404
Nice Selection.
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 😉 https://www.niconlyone.com/error/404.html
A big thumbs up for Mark Dijkstra!
Cool list!! Thanks for including my 404 page 😀
Some of these make you want to enter a non-existant URL just to see them, brilliant examples.
Great collections, thanks…
here is another great one : https://www.apadeloup.com/sdf
Cool list – if I may, I would like to add https://blackmoondev.com/404 as well. Cheers
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!
Interesting collection. Nice to add a bit of creativity where most people would not even expect it.
Really your blog have nice collection of posts. I hope that i’ll come again on your blog.
Thanks for sharing Gisele Muller
Nice collection, some inspiration there! Another good one over at https://designstuffdaily.com/blahblah
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.
Those are a great 404 pages.
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
Really Nice !
This is a really amazing collection of 404 error pages!!!
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…
Great collection!
‘Sight’ is mis-spelled for At First Sight
Really good collections ….
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:)
incredible collections…
Those “twurn” birdies are quite amusing.
Great ideas…
This has inspired me to to update my boring 404 page.
Hey guys,
Thanks for all comments, pages shared, etc…
It’s really nice to hear back from you!!
=)
Hi Guys,
love the list, would love to add our 404 https://www.staak.co.uk/404
Keep up the good work!
Great pages!
This one has always been one of my favorite. If you are familiar with the site, it’s even better!
https://www.homestarrunner.com/404
Ha, some of them used birds from Twitter 404.
nice collection for 404 error pages ;D really cool for all of its
Check out this 404: https://www.holyghostoutdoors.com/not-a-page
A really cool collection, thank you
good job!
Good Ideas!!! Thanks.
There are some great ideas here. I’m feeling inspired to improve the 404 page for my site now.
Thanks
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 🙁
they all were successful and interesting 404 page designs, a very successful and creative.
I would like to share with you my page 404:) Turkish, but I think the design is as beautiful. Design and coding was done with HTML5. 🙂
https://www.engintopcuoglu.com.tr/404
One day one amazing 404 : https://www.bonjour404.fr