{"id":175,"date":"2015-08-17T11:33:50","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T11:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/web-design-news\/?p=175"},"modified":"2015-10-26T14:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T14:32:07","slug":"great-examples-of-custom-404-error-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/great-examples-of-custom-404-error-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Great examples of custom 404 error pages"},"content":{"rendered":"

No matter how careful we are, visitors to a website can find themselves staring at a 404 error page. \u00a0It is important to make sure the error experience is just as good as the website.<\/p>\n

The most common way people find themselves at a 404 page is because of broken links on a page. It is important that you validate your links and check your analytics tools to see if you can spot the culprit.<\/p>\n

Here are some examples of some really good error pages…<\/p>\n

Twitter<\/a><\/h3>\n

I like how they made an account for the 404 page. I wasn’t expecting it and it made me smile when I saw it.<\/p>\n

\"404-twitter\"<\/a><\/p>\n

bluedaniel.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-bluedaniel\"<\/a><\/p>\n

studiogewoon<\/a><\/h3>\n

I had a good chuckle when I saw this one and isn’t that what it is all about? Offering a positive experience when something goes wrong?<\/p>\n

\"studiogewoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Torbay Fishing<\/a><\/h3>\n

A site dedicated to sea and shore fishing. The error page is therefore water related.<\/p>\n

\"Torbay<\/a><\/p>\n

jumpingjackrabbit.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"Jumping<\/a><\/p>\n

FireFox<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-firefox\"<\/a><\/p>\n

huwshimi.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-huwshimi\"<\/a><\/p>\n

DevonLocks<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-devonlocks\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Hootsuite<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-hootsuite\"<\/a><\/p>\n

deviantart.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-deviantart\"<\/a><\/p>\n

fastcentrik.cz<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-fastcentrik\"<\/a><\/p>\n

quartzy.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-quartzy\"<\/a><\/p>\n

brandcrowd.com<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"404-brandcrowd\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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No matter how careful we are, visitors to a website can find themselves staring at a 404 error page. \u00a0It is important to make sure the error experience is just as good as the website. The most common way people find themselves at a 404 page is because of broken links on a page. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29,94],"tags":[23,24,25],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-help-guide","category-infographic","category-web-design","tag-23","tag-error-page","tag-examples"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonday.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}