50 Inspiring 404 Error Pages to Ramp up Your Design Creativity
There is nothing more annoying than reaching an error page. Whether you type a wrong URL by chance or click on a broken link, the “not found” message is an expression that teeseverybody off. While some web designers simply focus on guiding the users back to the homepage others wisely use 404 errors pages functionality to show some fun tendencies that make the page errors tolerable.
One thing great about 404 error pages is that you can show off your creativity and similarly drive users back to the main content. Thus, it is highly recommend designing custom 404 pages that are user-friendly and that keep visitors or customers wanting more from your website. It’s worth knowing that 404 error pages are also great for SEO. Designing pages that are similar to your other pages make your site highly optimized for the eyes of search engines.
Web designers tend to mistakenly neglect the power of customizing error pages. Errors rarely happen, but when they do, visitors can become frustrated and hit the “X” command. Thus, web designers should always have these pages ready for navigation. This article will list 50 inspiring 404 error pages for creativity and inspiration.
Mint is about personal financing, thus they have worked on a design that would describe what their company is about without sacrificing creativity.
Magnt design focused on pulling out the roots of Venn. The Venn diagram, do you still remember that?
Are you trying to break our site or something? The question and the dude biting the breadis really awesome.
This is one of the most creative designs in this page. If you are a talented designer you can pull this off.
Every time you see Homer Simpson, be ready because there is something fun coming up.
The error page on 9gag is simple but inspiring; they posted “404” in a different way.
The famous thumb for liking things on Facebook is broken. Thumbs up for this page…
Looks Like You’ve Lost Your Way
Ack! Looks Like You Have Lost Your Way! This is certainly another cool page from Carbonmade designers.
DeviantArt’s 404 error page is very simply. A few links to help you found your way back and a small image worth a thousand words.
The team of designers on blueleaf brought a rasterized font principle. Though, the background image is more appealing…
Heads or Tails? None of the sides of the coin fell down. This 404 error page is impossible.
A dog chasing a post man, I’m doubtful that the animal will pull out more letters.
Join the wrapping and stick the 404 mark in the next gift…
Here is another cool 404 error page…
Oops! I urge you to curb your anger. Now look what you did to your screen.
This is not a page. Do you notice the 404 in there?
Please Proceed to the Main Level
So you are lost…take the next 404 train to get you back to the next level
Please, don’t freak out everything is going to be A-OK, J
404: on noes, there’s nothing in here
You couldn’t find a page in a vast universe…They are sorry for that.
And again, you didn’t manage your anger. This is just another broken screen.
Now that you’ve stumbled on a 404 page, reading this dialogue will make it tolerable.
We caught the dog with his pants not so down. Let’s find him something else to wear.
Just another simple 404 page for your inspiration.
The Wrong Kind of Breaking News
Ninemsn found a wrong way of breaking news in a perfect page for reconciliation.
This 404 page is great; you can drag the text and browse through the background image to find some beauties.
The Universe You Are Looking For Doesn’t Exist
Houston always has a problem…the universe you are looking for doesn’t exist. The page plays around on space.
Another cool page that will make this 404 error tolerable. Have a fun read.
Let’s help this page find their dog, it’s lost somewhere and can’t be found.
Don’t beat your head up, there is a way out. The small search box can guide you to the right place.
The little kids are facing some problems on finding their page. This is another fun and creative way to show on your next 404 page.
The image is worth a million of words.
The journal you are looking for can’t be found, as simple as that.
Tim and Simon hate to play the blame game they rather mess up on their studio.
Fork came up with a decent 404 error page that was lost in a sea.
Here is another great page that you can use for your inspiration on your next project.
Yikes! Finally, we caught somebody with his pants down.
It seems like we just didn’t find our page, the monster is angry, run.
This page also focused on simplicity: some little text and an image that express their brand and business.
On Truf! Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
On WallMob, You shouldn’t disturb those two angry bodies.
Knock Knock…asking who is there wasn’t a part of the plan.
The iPoleCat brought us a creative page using a queuing system with some fancy colors to spice it up.
Mixpanel plays safe with an appealing “sorry” using a snazzy font design.
The Japanese site retrieves a categorical culture; the ninja appears to have stolen the page.
Looks like somebody has been lost in space…the 404 flag waving is just great.
This is another creative page that uses a notebook frame and a handwriting font style. It’s just natural.
The Dragon was a way too fast and removed the page you were looking for.
Here we have another simple page for stimulating your sense of creativity.
Niconlyone did great with his 404 page design. He deserves some credit.
Github opted for playing around in space, this time Houston doesn’t have any problem.
I hate arriving at 404 pages, but if it is beautifully designed- I don’t mind getting 404 error from time to time.
Thinking of designing a creative page for my website now:)
Nikhil. Nice roundup. One of the largest out there with modern examples.
The Heinz ketchup example is a great one also: http://www.heinz.com/error.aspx.
These are also great examples I’d like to share: https://www.titleist.com/404 (for golfers ), http://www.eharmony.com/404/, http://www.sportingsolutions.com/404 (for football fans).
This is our own attempt: http://theinformr.com/404/ and here is my favourite http://www.vasamuseet.se/404 (vasa museum).
Thanks for the solid collection.
Hey man, thanks for all of these examples. I was tasked to design our 404 page over and this helped out a ton. It gave me a lot of inspiration that led to this masterpiece: http://ledgernote.com/dat-404-doe/ It’s kind of goofy, which is my style. each element comes to life and starts dancing to the theme song we had made. Thanks again for this post :)