Web Design
1378 sites
https://archive.hankchizljaw.com/notes/104
Andy Bell is a freelance web designer specializing in semantic HTML and CSS, and this archived note from 2019 captures his interest in collecting links to personal sites where people post their own notes. Andy is also the co-author of 'Every Layout' and curator of piccalil.li, making this a small window into the indie web and personal publishing community he helped foster.
https://collections.nekoweb.org/
Collections is a federated archive site offering curated sets of old-web assets including 88x31 buttons, blinkies, music files, and MIDI tracks. Though the project is winding down after its host geocities.club announced closure, it amassed 50,000 visits and remains a nostalgic resource for retro web decoration materials.
https://lara-aigmueller.at/
Lara Aigmüller's personal site documents her journey building a web presence step by step, with a focus on frontend web development, tools, and inspiration. She shares thoughts on music, running, and the process of creating incrementally rather than waiting for perfection.
https://randomcube.neocities.org/
Anomaly INC is a gif-heavy personal Neocities page with an epilepsy warning, suggesting a visually intense old-web aesthetic loaded with animated graphics. The site is essentially a landing or splash page with minimal navigable content visible, making it more of a stylized web presence than a deep content hub.
https://xyzi.ichi.city/
A minimalist old-web personal page by xyzi on ichi.city, styled with nostalgic references to MySpace, GeoCities, and ASCII art. Visitors will find a guestbook, a Hotline webring, and a retro early-internet aesthetic packed into a sparse but charming landing page.
https://www.arrayinamatrix.xyz/index/webrings
A dedicated webrings membership page from the personal site arrayinamatrix.xyz, listing all the webrings its creator belongs to including Retronaut, Hotline, Loop Ring, and the Octo Ring. Each ring is presented with navigation buttons for exploring connected sites, making it a neat snapshot of old-web community linking culture.
http://scripts.indisguise.org/
Angela's Indiscripts is a hobbyist archive of free web scripts and small applications, including Enthusiast for managing fanlistings, SiteSkin for lightweight website theming, and LJ Magpie for embedding LiveJournal posts. All scripts are available as linkware and hosted on GitHub, making this a practical resource for anyone running personal sites or fanlisting collectives.
https://docs.oldmartijntje.nl/900-The-Archive/old-web-trowback
OldMartijntje's archive page pays tribute to the old web, featuring a Hotline Webring connection and a nostalgic look back at early internet culture. Hosted via Quartz and linked to a personal GitHub, this minimal but charming page is part of a larger personal documentation site.
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE
A long-form critical essay by Olia Lialina, researcher and digital folklore advocate, examining how UX design and Web 2.0 ideology have progressively alienated users from their computers and the open web. Drawing on interface theory, military surveillance technology, and the history of personal home pages, the piece traces how 'rich user experience' became a mechanism of control rather than empowerment.
https://tilde.town/~cwcowellshah
Chris Cowell-Shah's TildeTown homepage is essentially a blank slate, with only a welcome message and a promise of future content. As a tilde.town user page, it represents the early stages of a personal web presence on the collaborative Unix community server.