Web Design
1378 sites
https://glazeliights.neocities.org/
Glazelights' personal Neocities lair greets visitors with a playful warning about flashing gifs and eyestraining images before inviting them to 'enter the vortex.' The site appears to be a stylized old-web aesthetic personal page, though its content is nearly inaccessible from the landing page alone.
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://aaadaaam.com/notes/no-class
Adam Stoddard's technical notes site features deep dives into modern CSS techniques, including his experiment with building a fully class-free website using only semantic HTML elements and tag selectors. The writing is thoughtful and opinionated, with a focus on CSS architecture, cascade layers, and the philosophy of constraint-driven design.
https://melonland.net/
MelonLand is an online arts community run by Irish visual artist Daniel (Melon) that champions the handmade, personal web through tools, resources, forums, and creative projects. Visitors can explore a GIF museum, clicker pets, free textures, a wiki for web builders, and a broader manifesto about keeping the internet human and joyful.
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https://accordeon.dev/
Accordeon Dev is a minimalist personal site with a charming ASCII art welcome that leads to sections for a gallery, adventures, webbuttons, and programs. The site invites visitors to make their own corner of the internet, capturing that classic old-web spirit of personal expression and creation.
https://whysf.xyz/
Whysofurious's personal site 'Disassociating' is a handcrafted Neocities-style corner built with Zola, featuring a blog covering self-hosting, jailbreaking Kindles, GrapheneOS, and open-access academia. The site blends tech tinkering posts with fanlistings for books, games, and fandoms, and carries a strong indie-web ethos with webrings, a guestbook, and openly licensed source code.
https://afasterslowpoke.net/
AFasterSlowpoke.net is a handcrafted personal site by the creator known as AFasterSlowpoke, featuring a retro-web aesthetic with embedded audio, Flash-era content via Ruffle, and a binary-encoded Easter egg message. The site has evolved across multiple platforms since 2023 and carries a strong old-web DIY ethos, proudly declaring itself human-made with no AI involvement.
https://bunbun.dev/
Winter Hille's personal homepage at bunbun.dev is a minimal old-web style landing page featuring an 88x31 button collection linking to friends' sites across the indie web. The page offers embed codes for its own 88x31 button and connects to a small network of personal sites, with a Mastodon presence rounding out its social footprint.
http://dtp-aus.com/htmcderm.html
Created by Ron F. Woolley, HTML Code Lab offers over 120 pages of free tutorials covering HTML tags, tables, forms, frames, image maps, search engine optimization, and desktop publishing. The site is a comprehensive beginner-friendly reference that also includes free backgrounds, buttons, Perl/CGI scripts, and typography lessons.
https://blissfully.neocities.org/
A Neocities personal page by a creator called Blissfully that is currently under construction, with just a friendly greeting and a promise that new content is coming soon. There is almost nothing here yet, but it signals a handcrafted personal site in the making.