Shattered glass and everything.
It’s important to have, so thus: tonight’s project was spent creating a page-not-found page. I went against the grain on this one, choosing to berate my user rather than even remotely try to help them. Why? For one thing, they should never see this page anyway, and two, if they do see it, I want them to have a little fun.
I give you: the interactive 404 page.
It fits with the theme of this site and what I want it to be: relaxed and enjoyable. You have to repair the crack before you can actually click on anything useful to move on. This fixes two issues:
- It’s a problem having a gigantic GIF over your page if you want to click anything underneath it.
- Interactivity is fun.
If you’d like to give this page a whirl for yourself, be my guest.
I like it; playful and not berating at all in my opinion. Sooner or later, you might even find it in one of those “Top Twenty 404 Pages” lists.
Comment by Marc Amos — March 31, 2009 @ 6:51 am
In a wonderful irony, your 404 page is the best page on your site.
Comment by Matt Wiseley — April 3, 2009 @ 8:58 am
Dude, that’s hot. I need to re-evaluate my 404.
… Or … evaluate.
Comment by Adam Darowski — April 3, 2009 @ 8:26 pm
@Matt: I’m hoping to change that! :)
Comment by Fred LeBlanc — April 4, 2009 @ 12:26 am
Fred, I’ll have you know that your Suredev main site and404 error page had the room cracking up when I showed it as an example of a good error message, as part of my ‘Evaluating the User Interface’ presentation at the Boston Design 4 Drupal camp this past weekend! It was actually Trev that mentioned you are particularly humorous error to me though.
It was good because it shows users how to recover from the error, and best of all you allow people to contact you from that page. Nice one.
Comment by Lisa Rex — June 17, 2009 @ 9:55 pm
Sorry if the above post reads a little bit whacked. I’m using MacSpeech Dictate and occasionally it throws in extra words when I’m not looking.
Comment by Lisa Rex — June 17, 2009 @ 9:57 pm