100 Creative 404 Error Pages -

Table of Contents

1. WebSupport
2. Hot Dot Production
3. Huwshimi
4. Blizzard Entertainment
5. Bluegg
6. Eternal Moon
7. eHarmony
8. Daniel Karcher Film Design Studios
9. Suchowski
10. GitHub
11. Starbucks
12. The Truth
13. Lego
14. Foundation Zurb
15. Dailymotion Cloud
16. Magnt
17. Dilbert
18. LimpFish
19. Fab
20. CG Craft
21. CSS Ninjas
22. BlackMoon Design
23. FerDaze
24. Heldenmerk
25. MailChimp
26. Geary LSF
27. Facebook
28. Audiko
29. d20 SRD
30. Hakim El Hattab
31. Everlovin Press
32. I Love Typography
33. Scythe
34. Object Adjective
35. Tin Sanity
36. Tobi
37. Rezgo
38. Bit.ly
39. Trüf
40. Walk with You
41. Coolappse
42. James Padolsey
43. Apartment Home Living
44. Medium
45. Hootsuite
46. EctoMachine
47. Rawnet
48. Home Star Runner
49. Ants FX
50. Blik Wall Decals
51. Novation
52. Cayenne
53. The North Face
54. Foursquare
55. Sodahead
56. Oroza
57. Deviantart
58. Fandango
59. Zivity
60. Internet Shakespeare Editions
61. DropBox
62. Itchy Robot
63. Retardzone
64. Robert Sherman
65. Blue Fountain Media
66. Coca Cola
67. Jamba Juice
68. Mike Kus
69. iStockPhoto
70. Duoh!
71. Bellstrike
72. Boomset
73. Wufoo
74. Design Bombs
75. Hatched
76. n.design studio
77. Brantano
78. BrandCrowd
79. 69Lab
80. Tumblr
81. Batman 3D
82. Naldz Graphics
83. Whitespark
84. Copimaj
85. Project Fedena
86. Shock Me Sane
87. KuhBoom
88. College Humor
89. RocketTheme
90. pv.mgarage
91. An Idea
92. Waking Limb
93. Erskine Design
94. Critical Zero
95. Modcloth
96. Black Wave Creative
97. Psicobyte
98. Henrik Hedegaard
99. Plasm
100. Gwenhwyfar

A server will return a 404 response code if a page cannot be found. This typically happens if the website owner has removed a page or changed the permalink/URL of the page. It also happens when another website links to a page using the wrong URL.

It is common for website owners to create a custom page for 404 errors. Most website templates come packaged with one. If yours doesn’t, you should create one yourself, however you may want to consider creating something unique if your existing 404 page is a little bland.

The primary purpose of every 404 page is to advise the visitor that they have landed on an unreachable page. However, you don’t need to do this in a boring way. Landing on a 404 page means a visitor did not find the page they were looking for, however if you make your 404 error page both useful and entertaining, they might browse your website instead of hitting the back button.

To give you inspiration on what you could do with your own 404 error page, check out the list of creative 404 error pages below.