It really makes a user sad and sometimes even angry when a homepage of the website couldn’t be found. But a visitor doesn’t go upset when the error page is presented in a funny or elegant way. If a 404 page has an original design, offers the solution what to do and provides much information about the error, you can save your clients and they will, surely, came back on your website. In order to stand out against the crowd of usual default pages you should create an engaging custom page. In the post below you can see 7 beautiful examples of 404 error pages, please, use these cases as a source of inspiration; hopefully, this showcase has something for everybody!
Brightkit
“404 Fowl Not Found.” Brightkit shows a missing owl on a milk carton. Unusual and, therefore, memorable.
www.techkultura.com
On Pawel Opydo’s blog: “Golden Rule of the Code of the Samurai: If this isn’t the page you were looking for, you have to do Seppuku (a form of Japanese ritual suicide)”.
Wulffmorgenthaler
Blame that weird beaver on Wulffmorgenthaler.
Kochatelier Berlin
404 bread on the website of a cooking agency.
Robot
Jamie Huskisson communicates with “lost” visitors using imagery.
Unusual solutions
Shocking visitors with colors – interesting, but not quite appealing…
Frye/Wiles
Frye/Wiles Creative Agency.
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