How to Create a Custom 404 Page in Laravel (Step-by-Step Tutorial) | Design Your 404 Not Found Page

laravel-custom-404-page-tutorial How to Create a Custom 404 Page in Laravel (Step by Step Tutorial) | Design Your 404 Not Found Page

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to create, customize, and design a beautiful 404 page in Laravel — perfect for improving user experience when someone visits a broken or invalid route.

By default, Laravel shows a plain error message, but with just a few steps, you can make your own custom 404 error page that matches your site’s design and branding.

What You’ll Learn in This Video

✔️ How Laravel handles error pages
✔️ The location of Laravel’s error views: resources/views/errors
✔️ How to create and design your own 404.blade.php file
✔️ How to style your error page using HTML & CSS
✔️ How to display helpful links or buttons (e.g., “Go Home”)
✔️ Bonus: Customize other error pages like 500, 419, 403

Why Customize the 404 Page?

A creative and user-friendly 404 page helps you:

• Retain visitors instead of losing them

• Improve branding consistency

• Offer a smoother experience when users land on a wrong URL

Tools Used

• Laravel 10 / 9

• Blade Templates

• HTML & CSS

• Optional: Bootstrap for styling