Wednesday, 1 June 2011

Top ten creative 404 errors.

A chance to shine, fizzle and push em back towards your tawdry e-commerce existence.

These aren't fully completed links, you still have to put them into a search box to find them properly. And even then their creators might change or remove them because most of the time a 404 error means that the site isn't built properly and therefore can't be allowed to hang around indefinitely.


1:http://www.istockphoto.com/4041
2:http://wefollow.com/404
3.knocked off the list, not present no more.
4.http://www.mixx.com/404
5.http://fryewiles.com/templateserrors/404.html
6. not there no more
7. Goes to a bizarre coding area
8.http://www.clearspring.com/404
9.http://wufoo.com/404/
10.http://www.itchyrobot.com/404

thanks to

http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/24/creative-404-error-pages-around-for-inspiration/

For the list which actually turned out to be a top 50 rather than a top ten but I've included the ones that were still running. The problem is for a 404 error to be generated you need to create a missing link and that's a problem. Web crawlers can find these and google alerts you to them but if you're just a shopper, you won't see many if the site your looking at is well made.

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