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Nice list.

funny stuff

I love the brightkit and the fryewiles one :D

These are awesome, most of the 404 pages I have seen don’t have anything on them. I am trying to create personalized ones to make people feel better and keep them on the site longer. Thanks for the great list and inspiration.

some 404 pages were really creative, while others were simply hilarious. nice list. btw, i like d “live preview” when submitting comments.

yeah real cool error´s !

Some very cool error pages.
I also think that most of the readers do not know what the number 404 means.

Better to write an understandable text to inform the visitor what happend.

Very useful and entertaining, thanks!

Kind of appropriate…..

I’m trying to enter the desktop wallpaper calendar contest for February but my email is bouncing back with this error:
:
The users mailfolder is over the allowed quota (size). (#5.2.2)

D’oh… I may be too late anyway :(

That reminds me I need to make a nicer 404 page. Man Homer seems to be pretty popular for this error.

Great list… Thanks

Hey, glad to see BrightKit made the list! It was inspired from the previous list of 404 pages, so it’s nice to see it on this one. Cheers!

Nice, but what we have done here is unsurpassed, I think:
http://www.tuv.com/de/en/zert . Check it out.
1. You land on a page with wrong url.
2. It is in the overall layout
3. It gives you the main navigation.
4. It tells you it did not find that page.
5. It gives you a search result page with the term behind the last slash in the given URL.
6. It sends an error message with referral, requested page and timestamp to the admin, which automatically processes it and adds it to an error report.

andreas.wpv
andreas.wpv@directorinternet.com

I’m getting “Internal server error” instead of your 404 page.
Maybe we should also design THAT page to show something nice to the users, instead of telling them that we probably goofed somewhere…

@Vitaly and Sven

T mentioned the error page of the author of this post. The link you provided to sylwias website returns an Error 500.

What a great collection, I like the one from Apartmenthomeliving.com.

Beautiful. We had to link this! :-)

Love a great 404 page…a really easy way to show your visitors that you pay attention to every detail. Great post.

How’s this for awesome irony: Visit Wulffmorgenthaler.com’s 404 page, linked above, then click the ‘home’ link.

“Server Error in ‘/’ Application.

The resource cannot be found.

Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

Requested URL: /WulffMorgenthaler/default.aspx”

I think I have a pretty unique

I found the photo in somewhere, and apply to my 404 page:
http://www.trotesdochupim.com.br/404

:)

Some clever ideas there, however I do believe that some readers who come across customised 404 pages might interpret the fact that you’ve taken responsibility for a page doesn’t exist as a sign of incompetent or sloppy work from the webmaster, when it is likely they have simply typed the wrong address… this said offering links back to the homepage etc has got to be good.

I’ve always been proud of the 404’s I do for my clients. One of my favorites is the one I did for the non-profit Amara Conservation (hope this isn’t construed as advertising or spamming).

HAHAHA! Gotta love those custom 404 pages!

Very Nice. Here is another one

Nice list! Enjoyed watching those creative 404 pages.

I haven’t seen this used as a 404 error before, but it should be:

“Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I websurfed, weak and weary,
Over many a strange and spurious website of hot chicks galore,
While I clicked my fav’rite bookmark,
suddenly there came a warning,
And my heart was filled with mourning,
mourning for my dear amour.
‘Tis not possible, I muttered,
give me back my cheap hardcore! -
Quoth the server, ‘404′.”

TRUE! I always take 404 page for my best creativity this is nice place to show something unusual.

The original ‘quoth the server’ 404 message that Doug G is referring to can be found here… pure genius.

…one to appeal to the poets out there.

Nice list…. ;-)

Like ever! SM Rocks!
Thanks for so many suggestions!

Really nice second post on this subject. Your own 404 is also a great example of what can be done, consistent with the rest of your website. Thanks guys.

i love twitter 404 pages… seem like the bird going dissapear… original idea…

Hahah oh my god how hilarious!!!!
Love the Owl and the birdies.

Superduper post!! ;)

Awesome! Hilarious!

Great list (yet again…!)

This is a nice one too: on a dutch (NL) website for garden designs; ‘the requested page had been ‘erased’ from the design!’ .

Hi… How did you put that twitter button above the comment along with digg delicious??

http://www.piczogame.net/games/images/404bear.jpg

Beautiful pages.

cool :))

where is ours!?

http://www.devunity.com/errors/unavailable.php

Very inspiring, makes me wanna change all of my page into a various 404 page…. ;)

I think css-trick 404 error is the best

I want to submit mine also omgz~ http://www.zerosource.org/ of course throw something in that will generate a 404…

Zero

http://www.frankzuccaro.com/404.htm

funny 404:
http://www.247mediastudios.com/idunno

great idea… will have to try it

Here is one of my favorites … http://www.revolutiontwo.com/demo/album/404

http://www.inverseparadox.net/smashing_mag_rox.php

You missed the 404 pages of comedy central.
Some of their websites have funny monkey cartoons for the 404 page.

Good stuff really. Hey check out the response at the first featured 404 page – Cut & Taste. There’s a nice response to Smashing magazine :).

This is a bit like embroidering on the inside of the jacket. The wearer knows and dons it with pride.

I found this one yesterday.
http://flickr.com/photos/simontsmall/3237047397/

mine – old one, but good one ;)

i was wondering about all that simpsons stuff. isnt there a copyright on that images?

Great collection!

My favourite one would have to be: http://www.unfinitydesign.com/404

Very inspiring, makes me wanna change all of my page into a various 404 page…. ;) :)

Excellent list
This is another one that’s quit funny for a wine related website
http://www.spitorswallow.co.za/site/404
Again thanks for all the good work

Check the Cut And Taste´s 404 error page again.
A special message to SM reader. Very appropriate :)

Hi, as someone pointed out, I did write a special message to the Smashing Magazine readers on Cut & Taste’s 404 page.

As long as you click on the first screenshot featured in this blog post, you should be able to see it. For lazier people, here’s the direct link: http://cutandtaste.com/404

Think ideally one actually wouldn’t see these pages :-)

P.S. http://www.Sitemorse.ch can help you to ensure all links (also external ones) work

l o l them 404 erros look nice lol,
http://afrix99.deviantart.com/

Good finds, I love the funny ones.

Cool! Very NIce Review, but you miss this one:

http://www.explosm.net/comics/0/

ejej

Any kind soul know where to get tutorial for wordpress.org to make pretty custom 404 page like those
posted above?
I wanted to make a 404 page like that but dont know where or how to start.. lol..

~LoV3 smashingmagazine, my fav+ site for all time ^_^

Here’s a very funny 404-page that is a nice play on the site’s logo:

Kidmondo.com

yeah, its very cool, it has inspired me too to make my own one. it should be more interesting than the frontpage! har har har!

Cool! Congrats!

That is a gr8 collection of Error Pages that you got here. I also like your comments on each one of them.

@123, glad that it made your day :) and thanks to Smashing Magazine putting my 404 on this list :)

Hi,
that´s a fine listing of creative solutions for the 404 page.
I saw it on zdf.de today.

Now I plan to do this with my 404-p@ge too.

Very gooooooood.

some very clever examples… nothing like a good 404

Haha, when I saw the title of this article, I thought, “404′d!!! Homestar Runner!”

Great 404 page that must be added to this great list :D

I would like to know if I could find a nice tutorial to “How to place 404 Images when it’s happen”

Thx in advence

I have to start going to non-existent pages just to check out the 404 pages. These are great. Link Matching the 404 page to the theme helps and gives a good impression to the wayward visitor.

Nice work

Saw one funny one with tags. Had to plug it here :)

Intermix Management

This one is also awesome. Changes every time!

you forgot zipcar’s 404 page! i love the conversational tone and error sign dropped in the grass!

Well ours is not online yet but we hope it makes the next list
404 screen shot for new site

This is a funny 404 error from Blip.fm
http://digg.com/d315dlT

=) http://motos.kiev.ua/404

I think our 404 is fun … http://www.forefrontinternet.com/404.shtml

Here is a cute 404 from a Christmas site: http://bestsantasletter.com/bla

Another clever one http://www.mobivenues.com/404/

Here’s mine:

http://duncanmckean.co.uk/404

plain, simple, and refers to the homepage. Hope you like it.

:O …404! That’s a lot of 4– wait a minute Mike M.!

On the word, “Hello!” eye meant 2 doo “Jello!” HAHAHAHAHA.

(burps)

Defo a sweet-as source of inspiration! :):):)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/600126/Suba%20-%20404/HTML/404.html

Cheers!