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30 Creative 404 Error Pages

Posted by samzenpus on from the creative-technical-difficulty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It's frustrating when you explore the web and encounter the famous message: 404 Error – Page Not Found. What could make it a little better is a customized 404 message. Here are some really good ones that should inspire other web designers."

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  1. Database Error by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Error establishing a database connection

  2. Harder to... by jfclavette · · Score: 4, Informative

    make a creative 500 page.

  3. Github by softWare3ngineer · · Score: 4, Informative

    GitHubs 404 is great. cartoon rendition of a scene from a new hope with the title 'this is not the page you are looking for'

    1. Re:Github by booch · · Score: 4, Informative

      Not only that, but the scene has several layers that move in parallax as you move your mouse pointer.

      github 404 page

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      Software sucks. Open Source sucks less.
  4. Since that site is /.'ed, try this one by i_want_you_to_throw_ · · Score: 3, Informative

    Plinko labs. They've been doing this for years.

  5. Re:My internet sense is tingling... by Necroman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Like all content management systems, what could be static content is stored in a database (I'm looking at you Wordpress). Many people running these type of sites don't go through the steps of setting up some type of caching.

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    Its not what it is, its something else.
  6. Webcache... by BadPirate · · Score: 5, Informative

    To the rescue http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.flashuser.net%2Finspiration%2F30-creative-404-error-pages.html

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    - Holy crap, I've got MOD points! Who thought that was a good idea.