One of the most frustrating things on the web is when you think you’ve found what you’re looking for, and after you click on the link to that page, you get an error saying “404 Page not found”. We’ve all seen that too many times, haven’t we? The default style is the error information on a plain white background, but it can vary according to certain ISPs. It’s not very useful, and simply hurts user experience, making us want to navigate away to another site altogether. Now, imagine if the broken link was on your site. You can let your visitors walk away, or you can do something about it. If you have access to your server, you can create Error 404 pages can are useful to people, and even a little fun.
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