Nothing spells creativity like a web site owner who puts some jazz and spice into the almighty generic 404 “Page Not Found” error, the blog post 70 more fantastic 404 error pages on FrancescoMugnai.com compiles some of the best ones I have ever seen.
Here are just two of my favorites from the multitude of creative error pages you can see on this site, I encourage you to check out the article to see the rest, if you appreciate some IT humor.
-Dragon Blogger
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September 23rd, 2009 at 8:02 am
Hilarious!
Will add to the IngBoo roadmap.
Thanks/Rikard
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September 23rd, 2009 at 9:56 am
that would be nice to see, let me know if Ingboo implements a creative 404 page
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September 23rd, 2009 at 11:06 am
There is more than creativity involved. This creative website owner would actually have to know how to do it.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 11:18 am
True but website owner may not be the engineer or web developer in most cases. It is also pretty easy to create custom html page and set it as the 404 page for IIS, Apache you can pretty much google it.
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September 23rd, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Ha, These are very funny.
I am toying with the idea of installing a gallery (with affiliate links) on my “not found” page. Is there any reason not to do this? I just hate to waste all that digital real estate. Are there other ways to use that page?
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September 23rd, 2009 at 3:30 pm
Probably not a bad idea, or at least configure with some links to within your own site.
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September 24th, 2009 at 3:30 am
I had a good one but changed themes and noticing some 404′s from search so it may be time to hook something up.Dugg your interview @
http://blazingminds.co.uk/2009/09/24/blazing-minds-interviews-justin-germino-aka-dragon-blogger/
Thanks
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March 1st, 2010 at 7:13 am
I never thought about it!!
Now i’m thinking about customize my error pages…
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March 11th, 2010 at 5:30 am
I didn’t had the chance to customize my 404 error page yet! so.. thank you for reminding me!
By the way, nice title, I thought you are going to talk about the Fantastic 4 movie
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April 3rd, 2010 at 2:30 am
Nice one Hesham,
It’s always a good thing to have an amusing 404 page. Takes the anger out of not finding what you want. Then kinda makes people which that they don find what they want, just to see your 404 page.
Can I be as bold to show you mine.
http://www.integralwebsolutions.co.za/error.htm
Let me now what you think
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