Friends,
A few months ago, I was reading Advertising Age or Webdesigner Depot or something along those lines, and fell prey to a listicle showing fun 404 pages across the internet. In case you don’t know what a 404 page is, here’s Codeacademy to help explain…
Sometimes you’ll see a 404 error if you incorrectly type the URL to a web page you want to visit, and instead of being taken there, you’re rerouted to a page that reads something like, “404 Error – File Not Found.” The 404 error is telling you that the request you sent did in fact make it to the server, but the server could not find the specific file you were requesting.
This started me thinking about building a custom 404 page for bobtherieau.com. It’s not really that hard, but what should be the theme? All the clever error pages, pages that nobody would normally ever see, have a theme. But what should I choose for my nature photo-heavy portfolio site?
Then it became obvious…
And it still makes me laugh whenever I see it.
Your pal,
– bob
P.S. If you’re a big fan of error pages, I have server error and unauthorized access pages too!