Coolest Error 404 Pages In Web Design, Part I
There is some interesting ideas one can use to help out the visitors once they got lost ony your page. here is what you’ve come out with: over 40 working examples of user-friendly, creative and outstanding 404 error pages - in a brief overview.
4. Communicate through irony
Maybe an idiot has passed you the wrong link or maybe a bigger idiot has linked in their site to a page that doesn’t exist. In both cases the big boss man has been sent an email informing him of this problem, so the person responsible can be tied to a tree and horsewhipped! Nice to know.
Martin Yelland has some good explanations about what happened: strange little Web Gremlins or fluctuations of the Earth’s Magnetic field might have caused the error - however, a team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched to deal with this situation.
Even although you’re a douche bag, you can use a search box to get to the page you’ve been looking for.
Apparently, this is a test of the emergency broadcast systems. You should remain calm, these kinds of things happen all the time. The “four oh four error” by Poropoptrt.com.
5. While you are lost…
…you can read a comic…
…or more comics (the image is changing after every reload)…
…get two cocktail recipes…
…die…
…don’t count to 404 (the site also provides a search box and a tag cloud)…