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SwifTED: 404 Errors With A Twist

In the tradition of presenting TEDTalks, let us introduce SwifTED: articles with talks that are under five minutes. Concise, informative and perfect for short breaks.

In this talk, Renny Gleeson, ex-game developer and now advertiser and media strategist, presents the dead end of the web: the annoying 404 page. He explains that a page like that need be neither dull nor annoying – that it’s an opportunity for creativity. He shows what a number of sites have done with it, and it’s worth checking out…

Below are some more examples of creative 404 pages…

from http://www.fryewiles.com/
from http://www.markdijkstra.eu/404/
from http://psdreview.com
from http://psdreview.com

Last but not least, there are some great 404 videos, too.

Why stick to a two-dimensional page when you can use moving images?

For example…