WAZA, World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, has a wonderfully hilarious 404 error video page featuring some flamingos that are obviously very lost! Help them get back to the WAZA website!
Awkward yet hilarious is what New York-based artist Steve Lambert went with for his 404 error page. Watch him nonchalantly explain that there’s nothing on the page you’re on and that you can stay, or go, or stay, or click on a link, or stay, “whatever you wanna do”.
Atlanta-based data strategy consulting firm BluePath also uses humor for its 404 error page. The page features a map of Atlanta, with a dot indicating where you, the viewer, are – “wayyyy off the map”!
For their 404 page, the designers at Mailchimp feature a donkey with its head in a hole trying to help you find the lost page.
Talk about an ingenious way to get your visitors to stay on your website, the 404 error page on the Kualo features the 1980’s-style video game, Space Invaders, but with a Kualo theme. Reaching a 404 error page may be annoying but anyone with a little free time on their hands will most likely stay for a game (or two) – especially considering that (apparently) getting a score of 1000 can get you a discount on your hosting!
Hilariously over-dramatic, the 404 error page at Tinsanity features a cup with bloodshot eyes running across the screen and screaming – obviously poking fun at the fact that it’s not that big a deal to run into the 404 error page. What makes it even funnier is the intense and melodramatic music playing while all this is happening!
On their 404 error page, Cloud Sigma playfully introduces us to one of their team members – a cute cat busy coding while staring at a computer screen. Very effective 404 error page for the simple fact it’s guaranteed to make you smile.
Online matchmaking service eHarmony’s 404 page cleverly states that the page you reached is unavailable but that there are half a million eharmony singles who are available! Smart.
Adobe stuns us with a creative, mind-bending angled world for its 404 error page. Very cool, indeed.
You’ve reached a page that doesn’t exist and the Tilt Gorilla isn’t too happy about that – in fact, there’s a video of him going bananas over it! Check it out.
You must lost – but don’t worry, Margaret gets lost too. What a great 404 error page for American comedian Margaret Cho. It fits her sense of humor, her personality and her comedy perfectly!
Videotron uses its 404 error page to remind us that unicorns are fictional and that they do not exist, just like the page you were trying to reach. Thanks for reminding us Videotron!
Have you ever seen a polar bear wearing a big gold chain necklace while skateboarding? Well, if you haven’t, the 404 error page on the Metro.co.uk website offers you a glimpse of what that would look like, while reassuring you that they’re working on fixing the broken page you ran into. Wonderfully funny and random.
The 404 error page on the Good Dog Design is beautifully connected to the name of the company and its logo. It also cleverly features the company’s phone number, both in the US and in Australia, in case you decide to contact Good Dog Design to inquire about their services (or their black and white Border Collie)! Clever design (and idea).
On the Whitespark 404 error page, they graciously give you the option of deciding the fate of one of their employees. His fate and his future within the company lies in your hands – will you have him fired, or not?
Like Kualo, Heyzap also uses an interactive game to keep viewers engaged and entertained, at least for a while.
Simple, cute and effective, even with no text – Lego uses humor, imagery and one of its most iconic characters, the little Lego man, to show viewers they’ve reached a page that doesn’t exist. You don’t always need words to say something, and Lego proves it with their ingenious 404 page.
NASA’s 404 error page fits well with the organization’s branding by using some lighthearted cosmic humor. Nicely done.
Snow!? Well, you obviously ended up somewhere else other than Florida if that’s what you’re seeing. Smart and cool concept.
Similar to the Lego page, Hoppermagic’s reason for the page being broken is a fictional one – that reason being, rabbits nibbling on cables.
Like many things in life, sometimes the things we love simply break – including websites! That is the message HubSpot is conveying to us on their 404 error page, but hey, not to worry, most things that break can be fixed.
Your Internet is full, so you must drain it (obviously!)
Behind all the aesthetics there is always coding. This coding commonly remains hidden from viewers visiting your page; that is, till something breaks, and the code becomes visible. Well, for their 404 page, the guys at CSS Tricks have cleverly made it obvious something’s wrong by placing a ficticious rip in the middle of a blank white page, revealing the code behind it. Very ingenious.
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