If you have a broken link on your site or the pages, which don’t exist any longer, have moved to a new server or have never existed at all, visitors will get an internal error message from the server. However, by default these messages aren’t that helpful
Whilst a well designed page can provide a means to find what they are looking for, wouldn’t it be great to display related information visitor might be interested or even redirecting them back to main page in a custom 404 page, here we have collected some 50 cool custom 404 pages just to inspire you, well not all are very informative some are simply an image or just with funny message but still it goes with the site itself..
1.) Carsonified
2.) Youcastr
3.) Unitinteractive
4.) Agens
5.) Beta.mnet
6.) Us.blizzard
7.) Huwshimi
8.) Springload
9.) Redtag
10.) Nclud
11.) Wufoo
12.) Expansion broadcast
13.) Vimeo
14.) Surfingonstatic
15.) Cssremix
16.) Mailchimp
17.) Robo
18.) Bol
19.) 24-7media
20.) Leapanywhere
21.) Dundeeliving
22.) Twurn
23.) D20srd
24.) Gadies
25.) Acromediainc
26.) Chrisjennings
27.) Astuteo
28.) Studio7designs
29.) Yourwebjob
30.) Odopod
31.) Trubru
32.) Lookitsme
33.) Zanami
34.) Gog
35.) Spongebob
36.) Digiguru
37.) Twitter
38.) Gdzl
39.) Itchyrobot
40.) Deviantart
41.) Digitalmash
42.) Shelfworthy
43.) Istockphoto
44.) Gregone
45.) Spreadshirt
46.) Anidea
47.) Fubiz
48.) Ferdaze
49.) Cssscoop
50.) Creationthing
51.) Patterntap
52.) Twingly
53.) Southcreative
54.) Newspond
November 9th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
God these are all so amazing!! I finally finished mine at http://riptapparel.com/404
Wow I really love the one from Blizzard!
November 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
indeed some of these are cool. dumping all 54 of them into your readers’ rss readers (without using a “more” tag or something like that to give control to us to decide whether we want to see them all) wasn’t such a great design idea, however, so i chose to unsubscribe from your feed after having waited for them all to load.
guess i’ll return in a month or so and see whether you implemented a solution for this (multiple (short and long) rss feeds that are easy to find and use, more tags and so on), because in general i liked your content.
all the best,
November 9th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
i do love a good 404!
November 9th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
Brilliant. Always a website that takes time with its 404 page.
November 9th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Cool, I could use some of this custom errors for my blogs.
November 9th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
wow these are really inspiring pages, lots of creativity. Nice post and good share thanks, I’ll definitely create one !!
November 10th, 2009 at 6:56 am
haha. 22 and 41 are fun.
where’d it go?
where’d what go?
Hooray, you broke the internet.
November 10th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Hey that was a really nice post… I work in a website designing company and appreciate it a lot…
November 10th, 2009 at 7:46 am
All the designs are just simply superb…………..Bookmarked to my favs list ……..:)
November 10th, 2009 at 8:28 am
All these designs are fine, but in a way to improve user experience, my favoutites are those who try to redirect user, those which propose something interesting to reumse browsing on the site. Design is a thing, ergonomy is another !
November 10th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Hmm…. Nice Collections Mr.Shadow…
November 10th, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Amazing collection! Love the ones from Devianart, Digitalmash and iStockphoto. Thanks for sharing. Really really inspiring.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Superb Collection! Thanks.
November 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
WoW … Really nice list ..
and i like #6 even more .. THANKS .. ^_^
November 15th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Hey very nice 404 pages i really like it.
November 16th, 2009 at 4:22 am
Nice 404 collection.
November 16th, 2009 at 10:00 am
This is so great
Thank you for these examples.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
These are pretty cool. I’m inspired to try and make one for my own site.
November 21st, 2009 at 8:59 pm
whoaaa i love it very much it is so creative and amazing people keep on doing this jeje
i love itt
December 2nd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
awesomeeee
looks soo kooollll!!!!
December 25th, 2009 at 10:22 pm
My 404 error pages…
http://blog.factordstudio.com/404
http://www.factormetal.com/404
December 31st, 2009 at 6:19 pm
amazing collection, great works!
January 13th, 2010 at 12:47 pm
You never usually think about the design of your 404 error page. But after checking these out I am so inspired to go and create my own!