Web Design
1378 sites
https://2cool4fp.neocities.org/
Created in response to the great Neocities crash of 2019, this appreciation directory spotlights Neocities users who were knocked off the front page due to a follower-wiping bug. Visitors can browse curated profiles of interesting personal sites spanning anime, fashion, cats, programming, and more, all discovered through community submissions.
https://blog.clew.se/posts/secret-web
Benjamin Hollon explores the concept of the 'secret web,' a thriving ecosystem of personal websites, blogs, and webrings that exists outside the reach of search engines and social media algorithms. The post dives into communities like the IndieWeb, Small Web, and Web Revival movement, examining how human-curated discovery tools such as blogrolls, RSS feeds, and webrings help independent sites find each other.
https://snails.town/
Snails.town is a richly built personal archive by a creator who writes about web development, device modding, JavaScript experiments, gaming, and travel, all housed in a charmingly organized site with shrines, a museum, a toybox, and a guestbook. The site leans noticeably into web-building topics, with tutorials, code snippets, articles on Eleventy, Kindle jailbreaking, and graphics automation making up a substantial portion of its content.
https://rietta.com/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html
A preserved legacy tutorial from 2005, written by nine Georgia Tech students, covering the full process of developing extensions for Mozilla Firefox 1.5. Topics include packaging, GUI creation, user preferences, localization, security, and distribution, making it a fascinating historical snapshot of early Firefox extension development.
https://nuggets-wurld.neocities.org/
Nugget's colorful personal corner of the web features a classic Neocities-style homepage with a guestbook, webmap, and a curated list of cool sites. The landing page warns visitors of flashing lights and adult humor, hinting at a fun and irreverent personality behind the site.
https://sebastiangreger.net/
Sebastian Greger is a Berlin-based sociologist and digital artisan whose work focuses on technology non-use, digital sovereignty, accessibility, and the societal implications of design. His personal site presents his research interests, selected projects, and professional background spanning academic institutions, Helsinki digital agencies, and freelance practice.
https://innertu.be/
Innertu.be is a webring dedicated to connecting human-made personal websites, built around a philosophy of resisting corporate web centralization and celebrating independent creators. Members join by submitting their site URL and tags, then display the webring panel to link visitors through a curated network of personal and portfolio sites.
https://entropically.neocities.org/home
Vance's personal Neocities site combines a blog, original character pages, and a 'learn' section with HTML and CSS guides aimed at fellow web crafters. The site features an impressively customizable interface with multiple color themes, font options, accessibility settings, and a detailed changelog that reflects genuine dedication to building in public.
https://davidjohnmead.com/
David Mead is a British UX designer and front-end developer living in the USA, sharing thoughts, bookmarks, and personal posts on his IndieWeb-style personal site. His bookmarks lean heavily toward web development resources like CSS resets, HTML entities, and aspect ratio calculators, and he has been designing and building for the web since the 1990s.
https://tilde.club/~wells
Scott Wells maintains this curated link garden on tilde.club, collecting low-bandwidth and lightweight web resources for use in emergencies, on trains, or anywhere connectivity is limited. The collection spans news, weather, travel, reference, and even pre-2000 personal websites, all organized around the ethos of a fast, accessible, minimal web.