I’ve updated talk playstation’s 404 page. So whenever a user gets lost or can’t find what they want a neat looking 404 page will help them further.

I had a look at other blogs 404 pages to get some inspiration and i really liked ProBloggers idea of one so i pretty much used that as a starting point.

So what exactly have i got on the 404 page? Well first of all i’ve got a message stating that the page doesn’t exist and that they should try searching the blog. I’ve put a search field on the 404 page just in case the user got lost even more. Secondly i put in a ‘Popular Posts’ list, although there is a ‘Popular Posts’ at the top of the blog but this only displays top 5. In the 404 page it displays 15 posts. Last but not least i’ve but in a ‘Recently at Talk Playsation’ description there, telling my users how to subscribe to the RSS feed and to check back to the home page for new updates.

Its far better than the ‘Nothing Found’ heading i just had, i think a lot of people might have been turned off by this.

If you haven’t customised your 404 page, chances are that it just says ‘Nothing Found’, try putting some extra information in otherwise you will turn visitors off.