Web Design
1378 sites
https://node.lordmatt.co.uk/
LordMatt's social node is a personal hub run by Matt, featuring a federated social feed, links to his various projects, and small web experiments like a playful daily emoji widget called 'Today in Emoji'. The site connects to a sprawling network of Matt's other projects including a directory, a DJ site, Terraria notes, and a fictional dictionary of bad language, making it a lively indie web presence.
https://saneef.com/
Saneef H. Ansari is a freelance web designer and developer who shares learning notes, technical articles, and experiments covering web design, accessibility, design systems, data visualisation, and front-end development. His client work spans major organizations like Gojek, Zoho, and the Asian Development Bank, making this a well-rounded professional and personal showcase.
https://qswitch.neocities.org/
Qswitch's Neocities home base is a work-in-progress personal site featuring stamps, webrings, and a Windows 95-style aesthetic with links to neighboring sites. The page is currently undergoing major renovation but already showcases a classic old-web sensibility with pixel art, Mii imagery, and a growing collection of retro-flavored web decorations.
https://0u75k1r7-p4rad1c3.neocities.org/
A cryptically named personal site with a striking retro-futuristic aesthetic, featuring a dramatic age-gate warning modeled after nuclear waste site markers. The page leans heavily into old-web nostalgia with custom fonts, audio autoplay, and a dial-up-era loading sequence, but its actual inner content remains largely inaccessible from the landing page alone.
https://awesome-sauce-directory.neocities.org/
The Awesome Sauce Directory is a hand-curated collection of indie and old-web sites that the creator personally enjoys, built as a more organized companion to their overflowing button wall. Visitors can browse recommended sites, grab an award, and submit their own pages via guestbook.
https://tilde.club/~pyroboynroses
Pyroboynroses is a French DIY and tech enthusiast who uses this Tilde.club page as a mirror for their Gemini capsule, linking out to multiple Tildeverse spaces and a Neocities site. The creator is also a novel writer, and the page serves as a hub connecting their scattered presence across the old-web and alternative internet ecosystems like Geminispace.
http://tehomet.net/webstandards
Validated! is the official approved fanlisting for web standards, celebrating the practice of writing clean, validated, accessible HTML and CSS code. Maintained by Tehomet since 2006, it also includes a guide to achieving good web standards easily and has attracted over 115 members.
https://mikemai.net/blog/2024/11/01/you-are-not-a-css-dev-if-you-have-not-made-a-css-reset.html
Mike Mai's technical blog dives into CSS development with a focus on minimal, thoughtful approaches to web styling, including a detailed breakdown of his personal CSS reset and typesetting conventions. The post reflects Mai's background as a graphic designer, exploring font kerning, anti-aliasing, and box-sizing with practical code examples and a Codepen template.
https://tilde.town/~ydreniv/blog/tilde-site-setup
Ydreniv walks through the technical setup of their tilde.town personal site, covering tools like the Zola static site generator, Makefiles for automation, and Pushl for sending webmentions as part of IndieWeb integration. The post is a detailed how-to for anyone curious about running a low-overhead static site on a shared Unix server.
https://oldschool.dreaminginflour.org/
Jaq (goodbye_angel) has built a hand-coded home base linking together their various creative projects, most notably their music project 'leaving lost' and their writing site 'dreaming in flour'. A fresh return to personal web-making after years away, the site proudly uses Linux Mint, GIMP, and other open-source tools while participating in old-web webrings.