49 Nice And Creative Error 404 Pages

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.

HomeStar Runner
PEN-and-PAPER
Project EUH
Tix02
Spore
Psicobyte
Poemofquotes
Underconsideration
Martinkorner
MTV.de
Jackfig
Newyorker
Meroigo
Mikeace
Jhuskisson
Startdrag
LookItsMe
Amcharts
Alistapart
Enesto Timor
Jtbullitt
Galiacho
Ateaseweb
Cgcraft
Codesense
Suspended Animations
Mixx.com
Tysontate
Rubberducky
Aviation Reviews
Twitter
Kitty-yo
Jibjab
Pownce
Freeshell
Dazeofourlives
The Big Noob
Jeremy Fuksa
Just Creative
Slonky
Frye / Wiles
NTL World
Lumino.us
Bruno Bellamy
Blue Vertigo
HomeStar Runner
Krystal Archive
D20srd
Rainfall Daffinson
CUOMA Design Studio

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

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Comments

chyan July 4th, 2008

I’ve seen more hilarious 404 pages.. haha
But nice one :)
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!
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!!
David Hobson July 4th, 2008

Good post there are some good ones there i keep meaning to make one for my blog.
dev July 4th, 2008

Wow,nice post,thank for sharing~
personally like the first one
Syahid A. July 5th, 2008

The one with the BSOD is my fav. :D
Tom - StandOutBlogger.com July 5th, 2008

Haha.. thanks for starting my day off with a laugh!
Ajay Pathak July 7th, 2008

this was really simple and beautiful
Enesto Timor(20)
Santiago July 8th, 2008

Maybe, you include this!

http://www.cuoma.com/404

Really Cool!!
hongkiat July 8th, 2008

@Santiago It’s nice. Added, thanks!
Santiago July 8th, 2008

Thanks! for the cool post!
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.
TanCee July 9th, 2008

很好的东西。
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.
db July 9th, 2008

doublebao.cn/404

:)
Norhafidz July 10th, 2008

Error no 6 does attract my attention :)
webmaster blog July 10th, 2008

aviationreviews.com/404 - Very nice pages.Thank you.
pickupjojo July 12th, 2008

This one is cool too:
http://www.geekandhype.com/maybeitwillshowa404error
Richard Moore July 13th, 2008

I like this one:

http://thewebmotel.com/404/
Lincoln Cushing July 15th, 2008

Thanks for bringing some dignity to this little-appreciated genre. I wanted a personal touch on mine as well -
Felipe July 16th, 2008

Very nice pages of 404 error :D
kaveo July 16th, 2008

http://zanami.ru/404 is nice
Yanka July 17th, 2008

Very interesting
and my page

http://ifolderlinks.ru/404
heckennedy July 19th, 2008

Great!
nato July 21st, 2008

Wow.. that’s what I call creative.
stinki July 22nd, 2008

http://24-7media.de/saadasd
seecoy July 23rd, 2008

http://seecoy.com/hereIsOneYouMissed
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)
Arkaitz August 5th, 2008

Muy originales, si señor
gallez August 14th, 2008

oh noes, mac os!
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 ;)
ламинат August 25th, 2008

1lI’ll thingk about it.8v I compleatly agree with last post. dyb
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uder August 26th, 2008

Nice work! Thanks!
vish August 29th, 2008

will u please guide me how to make this thing work…
Danh ba web 2.0 September 23rd, 2008

Very funny ! I Iike list