Web Design
1378 sites
https://unapothecary.neocities.org/
Alix's Neocities site is a lovingly crafted tribute to the early internet, serving as a personal hub for favorite websites, graphics, music playlists, and HTML/CSS practice. With a retro aesthetic, active webrings, and a curated links page, it embodies the spirit of the old web revival.
https://webrings.nickifaulk.com/
Created by Nicki Faulk, this compendium collects and organizes multiple webrings covering collectives, fanlistings, Tumblr sites, and Blogger sites. It serves as a hub for old-web style community navigation, with more rings promised as the project grows.
https://dudalog.neocities.org/
Dudalog is a freshly launched personal site on Neocities, offering bilingual navigation in English and Portuguese. The site is just getting started as of 2025, with minimal content currently in place but a mobile-friendly design already set up.
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
Carlos Fenollosa shares a detailed and candid account of abandoning self-hosted email after 23 years, arguing that a handful of tech giants have effectively killed the open, distributed nature of email. The post is a compelling mix of technical insight and personal frustration, documenting the practical barriers that make running your own mail server nearly impossible today.
https://luka-the-normal-boy.neocities.org/
Luka's personal corner of the internet is a cheerful, under-construction hideout built as an antidote to social media, collecting anything its creator finds cool or interesting. The mention of hyperfixations, a Doctor Who 'Companions' fanlisting, and webrings give it a distinctly geeky sci-fi flavor.
https://proxima-ch-2426.neocities.org/
Proxi Archive is a work-in-progress personal site by a creator known as Proxima, built with custom JavaScript for a music player and sidebar navigation. The site is currently under construction with many placeholders, but already shows a handcrafted old-web aesthetic optimized for Firefox on wide-screen monitors.
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://123searchengines.tripod.com/se_manual.htm
A practical guide to manual search engine submission and SEO techniques from the early web era, covering how to submit sites to Google, AltaVista, MSN, and dozens of other search engines. The site includes tips on meta tags, keyword optimization, ranking improvement, and avoiding penalties from automated submission tools.
https://digital-girl.net/
Digital Girl Designs is a small web design studio by Kirryn, focused on creating code resources and design fancies for the indie and small web community. The site positions itself as a boutique source for web design tools and snippets tailored to personal and hobbyist websites.
https://lissaexplains.com/
Lissa Explains it All is one of the web's earliest and most beloved HTML tutorial sites aimed specifically at kids and beginners, covering everything from basic tags to advanced topics like CSS, frames, .htaccess files, and Perl scripts. Visitors can also find free CGI scripts, downloadable tools for creating cursors and favicons, an MP3 player, and an active forum for getting help with their own websites.