49 Nice And Creative Error 404 Pages

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Whether you have a broken link on your site or your visitors happened to come from a site that incorrectly hyperlinked your site; they are likely to land on a error page. If this error page is properly handled, the visitor will be reading a Error 404 page.

Seeing things from a visitor’s point of view, when a hyperlink is clicked, it’s expected to return results of related information. And if it turned out to be an error page, it’s disappointing, sometimes frustrating too. Most of the time, a frustrated visitor don’t return.

So for a web designer or developer, though sometimes you cannot control the cause of error page, but you can minimize the damages by using a custom Error 404 page. The page can serve to educate, encourage visitor to re-search, display related information visitor might be interested or even redirecting them back to main page. Error 404 page is mandatory and if you currently don’t have one, here’s 49 nice and creative Error 404 pages begging to inspire you. Full list after jump.

  1. HomeStar Runner

  2. PEN-and-PAPER

  3. Project EUH

  4. Tix02

  5. Spore

  6. Psicobyte

  7. Poemofquotes

  8. Underconsideration

  9. Martinkorner

  10. MTV.de

  11. Jackfig

  12. Newyorker

  13. Meroigo

  14. Mikeace

  15. Jhuskisson

  16. Startdrag

  17. LookItsMe

  18. Amcharts

  19. Alistapart

  20. Enesto Timor

  21. Jtbullitt

  22. Galiacho

  23. Ateaseweb

  24. Cgcraft

  25. Codesense

  26. Suspended Animations

  27. Mixx.com

  28. Tysontate

  29. Rubberducky

  30. Aviation Reviews

  31. Twitter

  32. Kitty-yo

  33. Jibjab

  34. Pownce

  35. Freeshell

  36. Dazeofourlives

  37. The Big Noob

  38. Jeremy Fuksa

  39. Just Creative

  40. Slonky

  41. Frye / Wiles

  42. NTL World

  43. Lumino.us

  44. Bruno Bellamy

  45. Blue Vertigo

  46. HomeStar Runner

  47. Krystal Archive

  48. D20srd

  49. Rainfall Daffinson

  50. CUOMA Design Studio

Gathered from: Pingdom, Smashing Magazine, CNN, 404errorpages and a lot of Google searches.

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Posted by hongkiat in Inspiration , at 07.04.08

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Comments

  1. chyan July 4th, 2008

    I’ve seen more hilarious 404 pages.. haha
    But nice one :)

    Reply
  2. KC TAN July 4th, 2008

    This is a nice collection of 404 pages! I am thinking of setting up my own personalized 404 page soon and this will definitely give me some ideas =)

    Thanks again!

    Reply
  3. Htoo Tay Zar July 4th, 2008

    Wow!! Great Collection, I didn’t have idea to change my 404 design. Now, I’ve got it. I’ll do soon :) thanks. Keep On Moving!!

    Reply
  4. David Hobson July 4th, 2008

    Good post there are some good ones there i keep meaning to make one for my blog.

    Reply
  5. dev July 4th, 2008

    Wow,nice post,thank for sharing~
    personally like the first one

    Reply
  6. Syahid A. July 5th, 2008

    The one with the BSOD is my fav. :D

    Reply
  7. Tom - StandOutBlogger.com July 5th, 2008

    Haha.. thanks for starting my day off with a laugh!

    Reply
  8. Ajay Pathak July 7th, 2008

    this was really simple and beautiful
    Enesto Timor(20)

    Reply
  9. Santiago July 8th, 2008

    Maybe, you include this!

    http://www.cuoma.com/404

    Really Cool!!

    Reply
  10. hongkiat July 8th, 2008

    @Santiago It’s nice. Added, thanks!

    Reply
  11. Santiago July 8th, 2008

    Thanks! for the cool post!

    Reply
  12. Mike Winstton July 8th, 2008

    Though these are fun to look at, I prefer error pages that look like error pages – simple, generic grey, with only a few words saying “ERROR – Page Not Found” or something equally understandable.

    IMHO, Visitors, no matter what their native language, should immediately know that it’s a NOT FOUND page, rather than needing to wade through lots of junk to discover that it’s not the page they are looking for.

    Reply
  13. TanCee July 9th, 2008

    很好的东西。

    Reply
  14. Nitin Reddy Katkam July 9th, 2008

    A couple of weeks ago, I’ve tried putting together a couple of error pages (non-404s included) from some websites.

    Twitter is the undefeated king of error pages – they’ve got the coolest graphics and they keep changing them ever so often. I particularly like the one of the birds rescuing the whale.

    Reply
  15. db July 9th, 2008

    doublebao.cn/404

    :)

    Reply
  16. Norhafidz July 10th, 2008

    Error no 6 does attract my attention :)

    Reply
  17. webmaster blog July 10th, 2008

    aviationreviews.com/404 – Very nice pages.Thank you.

    Reply
  18. pickupjojo July 12th, 2008

  19. Richard Moore July 13th, 2008

  20. Lincoln Cushing July 15th, 2008

    Thanks for bringing some dignity to this little-appreciated genre. I wanted a personal touch on mine as well -

    Reply
  21. Felipe July 16th, 2008

    Very nice pages of 404 error :D

    Reply
  22. kaveo July 16th, 2008

  23. Yanka July 17th, 2008

    Very interesting
    and my page

    http://ifolderlinks.ru/404

    Reply
  24. heckennedy July 19th, 2008

    Great!

    Reply
  25. nato July 21st, 2008

    Wow.. that’s what I call creative.

    Reply
  26. stinki July 22nd, 2008

  27. seecoy July 23rd, 2008

  28. Bill Parker July 30th, 2008

    Very nice collection.

    I have a small collection of haiku I randomly (via some php code) display on my 404 page (http://zeltus.eu/nowhere.html will display it)

    Reply
  29. Arkaitz August 5th, 2008

    Muy originales, si señor

    Reply
  30. gallez August 14th, 2008

    oh noes, mac os!

    Reply
  31. jbj August 21st, 2008

    I really love the one from Galiacho!
    You should definitely check out my 404 page if you want to see a funny one ;)

    Reply
  32. ламинат August 25th, 2008

    1lI’ll thingk about it.8v I compleatly agree with last post. dyb
    паркетная доска 1y

    Reply
  33. uder August 26th, 2008

    Nice work! Thanks!

    Reply
  34. vish August 29th, 2008

    will u please guide me how to make this thing work…

    Reply
  35. Danh ba web 2.0 September 23rd, 2008

    Very funny ! I Iike list

    Reply
  36. TRo October 24th, 2008

    haha nice :)

    thanks

    Reply
  37. yj November 7th, 2008

    good

    Reply
  38. znydz November 7th, 2008

    Totally creative 404 Error pages..
    To me, Pen-and-paper 404 pages and Martinkorner 404 error pages are the most creative among all of them…

    Reply
  39. Alex November 24th, 2008

    Heres another cool one with a nice image: http://www.lightpostcreative.com/404

    Reply
  40. dizi izle December 3rd, 2008

    Wow.. that’s what I call creative.

    Reply
  41. jose December 5th, 2008

    Definetely the most cool is de pen and paper one

    Reply
  42. Jason Fane December 5th, 2008

    No where near as good as…
    http://mist.xvand.com/humor/weapons.html

    Reply
  43. te9055 December 5th, 2008

    The case of the missing page
    http://www.britishmac.com/404

    Reply
  44. Jesse December 5th, 2008

    4chan has a bunch of neat 404 images that it cycles through:

    http://www.4chan.org/404

    Reply
  45. Epat December 6th, 2008

  46. Freebies December 10th, 2008

    The New Yorker is one of my favorites but they are all creative and clever. Good inspiration!

    Reply
  47. Neotrix December 10th, 2008

    This 404 ist good ;)

    http://www.neotrix.de/404

    Reply
  48. kiran December 25th, 2008

    Pretty impressive.

    Reply
  49. Nneon January 15th, 2009

    Here’s my one:

    http://nneon.net/404

    Reply
  50. Vizly Dizayn January 18th, 2009

    :) thanks

    Reply
  51. download-load January 18th, 2009

    thanks its great!

    Reply
  52. kurt February 12th, 2009

    http://www.fun-buggy.com/404.html

    my 404 error page

    funbuggy

    Reply
  53. alternatyka February 24th, 2009

    [...un muy buen rejunte de estas se puede ver en Hongkiat...]

    http://alternatyka.blogspot.com/2009/02/preloaders-disenando-hasta-el-ultimo.html

    Reply
  54. Kevin February 27th, 2009

    creative 404 Error pages all of them

    Reply
  55. Kenan April 22nd, 2009

    birkaçını türkçeye çevirip kullanmayı düşünüyorum bakalım :))

    Reply
  56. Hasan April 22nd, 2009

    ilk tv olan çok güzel diğerleri eh işte ama güzel toplamışsın tşk.

    Reply
  57. Jack Ryan April 24th, 2009

    Found this blog, got inspired, and made this one for my web site

    http://www.jackryan-usa.com/fehler404.html

    and this one too

    http://www.zeit-wen.de/fehler404.html

    thought you might like what your inspiration (blog) provoked. Thanx

    Reply
  58. medya May 22nd, 2009

    niceey

    Reply
  59. Medya Manşet May 22nd, 2009

    cute

    Reply
  60. medya June 4th, 2009

    yeyeye so good check this stuff
    Medya Manşet
    akp Haber
    Muhalefet Et
    Drajje

    Reply
  61. Johar June 14th, 2009

    Creative think but we must use 404 for more usefull like show about ur url list

    Reply
  62. Carina June 17th, 2009

    Thank you for the inspiration :)
    I just created mine today: http://www.carina-franz.com/404.html

    Reply

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