Following a link or entering an url manually can have two results in the web browser. A website is loaded or an error message is shown. One of the most dreaded error messages of them all is the 404 error page not found.
Website owners can leave it at that or create their own custom 404 error page to provide the user with solutions or to further humiliate him. Really depends on the type of site that you are visiting. Long time reader Daniel collected four interesting best of 404 error lists on the Internet on his (Swedish) Bloggliv blog. He is also giving away three Hypersnap 6 licenses if you are keen to win that software.
The four best of lists that he links to contain a total of 245 404 error pages. Many pretty funny, some stylish and more than a few plain evil. Want some examples? Here we go:
To view them all follow this, this, that or this link.
That reminds me that I have to create a custom 404 error page for Ghacks..
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LOL! Fantastic! Liked this one.
Check out best of 404 page from Hong Kiat Dot Com
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/60-really-cool-and-creative-error-404-pages/
Uh… my favourite wasn’t even listed there:
http://thcnet.net/error/404.php
Zork text adventure as 404-page… just hilarious…
It’s worth to mention, that Google have a script for making your 404 more valuable. This script can be found somewhere in Google webmaster tools.
It may be off-topic, but do you know, how hard is to see bus #404 , and even harder to step in it?
Another good 404 collection:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/1752/404-missing-pages-lost-in-web-space/
Nice 404 pages
My 404 error pages…
http://blog.factordstudio.com/404
http://www.factormetal.com/404
I really like this one : http://photography.f4jr.org/404.php