Show your users a vibrant and clean 404 page, that clearly instructs the user that the page they are trying to visit is not there. This elegant and creative designed free 404 error page is responsive for all devices. Entirely designed using HTML5 & CSS3 with responsive design. Fits on all screen size. Get it now for free!
Version 2.0 gives the 404 a way out — a Page Not Found caption with Back Home and Contact Us buttons — and adds four pages in the same design: a contact page with a validating form (contact.html), a server-error page (500.html), a scheduled-maintenance page with a live countdown and a notify-me email form (maintenance.html) and a no-internet page whose Try Again button reloads (offline.html). It also adds three ready-to-send HTML emails: the contact auto-reply (email-contact.html), the notify-me confirmation (email-notify.html) and a maintenance notice (email-maintenance-notice.html). The layout is centred on tablet and phone, and the font is self-hosted.
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What’s new
v2.0Sep 2026
The 404 now has a way out: a small "Page Not Found" caption and Back Home and Contact Us buttons under the artwork (v1 had no text and no links at all).
contact.html — where Contact Us goes: name, email and message with validation (the problems are listed in one box) and a confirmation. Add data-endpoint to POST it to your own server; without it the form is a demo ("Demo only" lines — delete them when you go live). Details at the top of js/main.js.
500.html — the server-error twin ("5 ◔ 0", the circle standing in for the middle zero), with Try Again (reloads) and Back Home. Marked noindex.
maintenance.html — "SO ◔ N": a countdown in four boxes (days / hours / minutes / seconds) to the date you put in data-deadline (empty = seven days from the visitor's first visit) and a notify-me email form that validates and shows a thank-you. Marked noindex.
offline.html — "OFF ◔ LINE": Try Again reloads the page, and a line appears when the connection returns. Marked noindex.
email-contact.html — the automatic reply the contact form sends.
email-notify.html — the "you're on the list" confirmation the notify-me form sends.
email-maintenance-notice.html — the heads-up you send before maintenance: start time, back-by time, expected downtime, a status-page button. All three emails are table-based and inline-styled for Gmail, Outlook and Apple Mail, use no images, and carry {{placeholders}} for your mailer.
On a tablet or phone the artwork and what sits under it are vertically centred on the screen; on a short landscape phone the page scrolls from the top.
The digits were two <h1>s (one "4" each) with the circle's <h4> between them, so a screen reader read "4, oops, 4". The artwork looks identical but is hidden from assistive technology and the page has one visually hidden <h1>: "404 - Page not found". The icon's alt text is now empty (the word "oops!" says it).
The page requested a font stylesheet (fonts/antonio/stylesheet.css) that was never in the package: gone. Roboto ships inside the page (woff2, the two weights used) instead of five weights fetched from Google.
The digits were floated inside an absolutely positioned box (with a hand tuned letter-spacing at the smallest size) and the credit line was pinned to the bottom, so on a short screen the artwork was cut off and the two could overlap. The layout is a grid now: the artwork sits dead centre exactly as before, and the page scrolls when it has to.
Meta description added (the page title stays "Creative Vibrant 404"); the credit line shows the current year; the dead container / row wrappers are gone.
Plain HTML and CSS plus one dependency-free js/main.js — no framework, no jQuery, nothing fetched from Google.
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