Web Design
1378 sites
https://theadhocracy.co.uk/
Murray Champernowne's personal tech blog covers a decade of building and maintaining theAdhocracy, with articles on frontend development, Astro, cPanel, Node.js, and web infrastructure. Alongside the technical writing, the site includes a journal, reviews, and personal notes, making it a rich mix of developer insight and personal reflection.
https://distinctivequality.com/blog
Ovi Demetrian Jr shares practical web design techniques and front-end development insights on this long-running design blog, covering topics like CSS grid, text formatting, page layout systems, and UI/UX best practices. Posts are thoughtful and opinionated, making it a solid resource for web designers who care about craft and usability.
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.
http://contemporary-home-computing.org/affordance
A keynote essay by net artist and Digital Folklore researcher Olia Lialina, delivered at the Rethinking Affordance Symposium in 2018, exploring how interface design shapes human behavior through affordance, forgiveness, and ambiguity in HCI and human-robot interaction. Rich with annotated slides and references, it offers a critical artistic perspective on the hidden power of UI design decisions and the metaphors baked into everyday digital interfaces.
https://nerdpocalypse.neocities.org/
NeRD-POCALYPSe is a self-described 'magical haven of self expression' by a creator who blogs, codes, and tackles ambitious projects at their own pace. The site is still under construction but invites visitors to enter through a playful, chaotic old-web aesthetic.
https://kirupa.com/hodgepodge/preserving_pixel_art_aesthetics.htm
Kirupa.com offers a detailed tutorial on preserving the crisp, retro aesthetic of pixel art in modern web environments using CSS techniques and scaling strategies. Created by web educator Kirupa Chinnathambi, this article is part of a vast library of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and animation tutorials that has been serving designers and developers since 1998.
https://sweetcharm.net/.CuteDesktop/VisitorYou/sozai.html
A web graphics resource collection offering free backgrounds, pixel art, icons, dividers, frames, and page layouts in a kawaii and vintage internet style. Highlights include Sanrio, Animal Crossing, Angelic Pretty, gyaru girls, elouai dolls, and other cute themed graphics organized into browsable categories.
https://accessify.com/tools-and-wizards/accessibility-tools/favelets
Accessify offers a collection of bookmarklet scripts (favelets) that web developers can save to their browsers for quick accessibility testing, including tools to highlight missing alt attributes, show div IDs, inspect stylesheets, and audit table structure. Each favelet runs directly in the browser, making it a handy toolkit for anyone building accessible, standards-compliant websites.
https://manos.malihu.gr/style-my-tooltips-jquery-plugin
Manos (malihu) runs a web design blog focused on creating and sharing free jQuery plugins, templates, and tutorials for developers. This particular page documents the Style-my-tooltips jQuery plugin, a lightweight script that replaces default browser tooltips with CSS-styleable custom ones.
https://netloop.netlify.app/
Niftosoft's NetLoop is a community webring with 20 member sites, connecting a variety of personal and hobby websites from across the independent web. The ring is open to new members and includes a GitHub-based error reporting system, making it a tidy little hub for old-web style site discovery.