Web Design
1378 sites
https://accessible-webmastery.neocities.org/
Sparrow's Guide to Accessible Webmastery is a practical reference site teaching old-web creators how to make their handcrafted websites more accessible without sacrificing creativity or personality. Packed with tutorials, a quick-start guide, and curated resources, it bridges the gap between expressive indie web design and modern accessibility standards.
https://area-51.neocities.org/
A GeoCities-style neighborhood directory hosted on Neocities, recreating the classic Area 51 community hub complete with featured homesteaders, community links, and retro web aesthetics. It showcases member sites spanning geeky pop culture, text adventures, and personal journals in the spirit of 1990s web communities.
https://petermolnar.net/opml.xsl
Peter Molnar's blogroll is an OPML file transformed with XSL to be readable in a browser, listing the websites and feeds he subscribes to in his feed reader. It's a bilingual (English and Hungarian) IndieWeb-connected page that showcases the classic practice of curating and sharing your reading list with others.
https://seryndelle.neocities.org/
Seryndelle's Sanctum is a handcrafted personal homepage featuring shrines, thoughts, links, and a guestbook, built with old-web sensibilities and best viewed on desktop. The site participates in multiple webrings including the Retronaut Webring, reflecting a love of the indie web and nostalgic internet culture.
https://xpace.nekoweb.org/webringpage.html
The Indiering is a webring created for webmasters who love old tech, physical media, vintage aesthetics, and the old web, uniting fans of 2000s internet culture under one community. The page includes join instructions, a widget code snippet, and a growing list of member sites spanning personal pages, music collections, art, and more.
https://hamatti.org/weeklies
Juha-Matti Santala publishes weekly notes collecting interesting links, talks, articles, and small personal discoveries spanning from 2021 through 2024. The archive serves as a running log of curated finds and brief reflections, making it a useful snapshot of one developer and community builder's intellectual curiosity over time.
https://xml.com/pub/a/w3j/s1.people.html
A 1997 essay by David Siegel, self-proclaimed 'HTML Terrorist,' reflecting on how his design philosophy of mixing structure with presentation shaped and arguably damaged the early Web. Published on XML.com, the piece argues passionately for the proper separation of HTML, CSS, and XML while acknowledging the creative tensions that drove the Tag Wars era of web design.
https://tilde.club/~danbri
Dan Brickley's minimalist tilde.club page offers a glimpse into early web culture, linking to an endangered languages seminar and a philosophy resource he HTMLized himself using MS Word macros on a 286 running DRDOS. The page is a charming time capsule of mid-1990s personal web presence, complete with an 'under construction' notice and a nod to tilde.club community tools.
https://webstandards.org/
The Web Standards Project (WaSP) is a grassroots coalition that fought to ensure browsers and developers adopted open web standards for accessible, affordable web technology. The site hosts educational curricula, task force resources, and advocacy articles from notable figures like Jeffrey Zeldman and Aaron Gustafson, making it a landmark in the history of the modern web.
https://zeb-dev.neocities.org/
Zeb-Dev's cozy homepage belongs to a self-taught web developer named Zeb who started learning web development in 2022 and shares projects, recipes, photos, and life updates. The site features an ongoing personal journal of development milestones, a tribute page for a beloved cat, and links to a CyTube movie-watching channel.