Web Design
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https://dpolakovic.space/dir
David Polakovic's curated web directory serves as a hand-picked "yellow pages" for surfers tired of ad-cluttered search engines, organizing links across software, programming, tools, and tutorials. The collection leans heavily toward free software, retro computing resources, Linux utilities, and developer tools, reflecting the site owner's technical passions.
http://cssdrive.com/index.php/main/csscompressor
CSS Drive is a comprehensive web design resource featuring a CSS gallery organized by layout type and color scheme, along with practical tools like this CSS Compressor utility. Visitors can minify their stylesheets with adjustable compression levels, browse tutorials, and explore demos covering CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript, and more.
https://www.laurennishizaki.com/projects/2018/04/personal-website
Lauren Nishizaki documents how she built her personal website from scratch using Jekyll, covering her journey from Blogspot frustration to a fully self-hosted static site with a travel blog, photo gallery, and projects section. The writeup is a detailed technical walkthrough touching on CSS, HTML, hosting with Digital Ocean and Caddy, domain setup with Namecheap, and the resources that helped her learn web development.
https://olifurz.com/
Olifurz's personal homepage features a charming old-web aesthetic complete with webrings, a dancing boykisser cat, and a Catppuccin-themed design. The site is a cozy corner of the indie web, inviting visitors into a creative personal space with music and queer-friendly vibes.
https://ava7patterns.com/
Ava7 Patterns offers a massive collection of 1905 free seamless background patterns and textures, organized by color and shape, available for use on websites, Twitter, Facebook, or as desktop wallpaper. With nearly 2000 downloadable tiles spanning styles from minimalistic to pixel and geometric, it is a genuinely useful graphics resource for web creators.
https://dir.lordmatt.co.uk/
Matt's Directory is a hand-built personal link directory covering 604 entries across topics like art, games, food, esoterica, technology, and writing, powered by PHP and XML files. Created by a hobbyist who describes the project with self-deprecating humor, it offers a curated collection of links the creator finds worthwhile or interesting.
https://gmbmg.com/
Give Me Back My Google is a search tool that strips out affiliate links and shopping comparison spam from Google results, delivering cleaner search outcomes for users frustrated by commercial clutter. The site targets the era when results from sites like Kelkoo, PriceRunner, and Bizrate dominated Google searches, offering a simple form-based alternative for purer results.
https://caffeine.wiki/
A richly written personal homepage belonging to a former 90s sysop now running a boutique tech consulting firm in Rio de Janeiro, written in a distinctive second-person narrative style. The site covers an eclectic mix of interests including Japan, technology and system design, flow-inducing games, curated oddities, and an annual best-of list, all connected through the Merveilles webring community.
https://bryanbraun.com/
Bryan Braun is a frontend/fullstack engineer who writes about web development, side projects, and lessons learned from years of building things on the web. Posts range from technical deep-dives on JavaScript and Git to reflections on productivity, AI tools, and the indie web.
https://ironicallyelijah.neocities.org/teeny%20towers
Ironically Elijah's 'teeny towers' is a collaborative pixel tower-building project where participants each contribute a small illustrated 'room' to a shared virtual building. The collection is still growing as the creator cautiously gathers rooms, making it a charming slice of old-web communal art and web decoration culture.