Web Design
1378 sites
http://backgroundsarchive.com/tiles/marble.php?page=1
Backgrounds Archive is a large collection of free seamless tileable textures and background images, organized by theme, color, brightness, and size for easy browsing. Featuring hundreds of marble, brick, fabric, wood, and other tile patterns, it was a popular resource for MySpace and Xanga profile customization in the early web era.
https://v19.neocities.org/
Sunday (handle: v19) has built a charming Neocities archive dedicated to collecting and showcasing internet interests, shrines, and old-web aesthetics with hand-coded HTML. The site features a blog, link buttons, a last.fm integration, and a growing collection of shrines celebrating 2000s-2010s internet culture and technology.
https://ethernal.win/main.php
Masiv's personal site (masiv's lair) is a self-hosted Spanish-language homepage built from scratch with HTML, CSS, and PHP, featuring a chat room, file tools, movie and book lists, and a custom git server. The creator documents their learning journey with web technologies while keeping the site deliberately minimal and bloat-free.
https://whimsical.club/
The Whimsical Web is a curated directory of websites that feature delightful, playful, and creative interactive elements, from monorail navigation to shrinking dogs to ASCII art guestbooks. Maintained as a celebration of joyful web design, it highlights personal sites and portfolios that go beyond the ordinary to spark wonder in their visitors.
https://solinus.neocities.org/
Solinus is a design-focused personal site where the creator showcases glossy, skeuomorphic web designs alongside a variety of other visual styles. Beyond the design portfolio, visitors can explore the creator's hobbies and collections, including clocks and internet radio, making it a charming hub for a design-minded personality.
https://varn.dev/
Adam Varn is a Senior Front-End Developer who has been building websites since 1996, and this personal site serves as a playground for indie web experimentation and accessibility advocacy. It features a charming Galaga tribute, links to his blog about the indie web movement, and a 'Uses' page detailing his daily tools and workflow.
https://graphxkingdom.com/
Graphx Kingdom is a massive archive of free web graphics offering over 5,000 downloadable clipart images organized into dozens of categories including animals, holidays, food, interfaces, and more. Webmasters from the early internet era relied on sites like this for free icons, backgrounds, bars, and themed clipart to decorate their personal pages.
https://bladesplace.id.au/
Blade's Place is an eclectic Australian personal site running since 1996, collecting a wide variety of unrelated pages on topics ranging from a comprehensive GeoHoods directory of defunct GeoCities neighborhoods to virtual pet guides and Olympic bid databases. The site is a fascinating digital artifact of the early web era, with many pages now archived for historical purposes.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/freed/0607freed.html
A 1996 New York Times 'Internet Q&A' column by John C. Freed, answering reader questions about early web topics like creating a homepage on AOL or CompuServe and running Netscape offline. A fascinating time capsule of the nascent consumer internet era, offering step-by-step guidance for everyday users navigating online services for the first time.
https://kiunlo.neocities.org/cursors
Cursor Cave is a free cursor resource created by Kiunlo, offering hundreds of custom PNG and .CUR cursor files organized by fandom and theme, including World of Warcraft, DC, Transformers, pride flags, and more. Visitors can download ready-to-use cursor sets for Windows computers or grab individual cursors for use on personal websites and Tumblr themes.