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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. Re:Database Error by [Marvin] · · Score: 5, Funny

    Error establishing a database connection

    Yeah, that's a classic.

  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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  4. Re:Database Error by erroneus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, that's one of them... where are the other 29?

  5. My internet sense is tingling... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do I get the sneaking sense that taking web-design guidance from a site at "flashuser.net" that managed to get its DB hosed while attempting to serve up a slab of largely static content is probably not the best of ideas?

    1. 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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    2. Re:My internet sense is tingling... by Necroman · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Oh, I know. I ran a site on Wordpress for a little over a year (fan site for a video game). My top traffic in a day was 20,000 unique visitors and 150k page views. During that peak day I was getting 6-7 hits a second, and without caching I would have been dead in the water.

      Having a simple theme that could apply across an entire site is amazingly nice. I really like CMSes and will use them again for future endeavors. But not understanding the tools (wordpress) you use when hosting a site yourself is just asking for trouble.

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  6. Re:Database Error by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Can't say I didn't get what I came for, but I do feel disappointed. Kind of like going to a Rick Astley concert, and you show up, and it's just a low-quality youtube video of "Never Gonna Let You Down" on repeat on a TV.

  7. 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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