Web Design
1378 sites
https://nomi.gay/
Nomi's hand-built personal site is a no-JavaScript cave on the web, created by a Poland-based computer science student using the Zola static site generator. The site features webrings, an 88x31 button collection, links to self-hosted services like Jellyfin, and a fediverse presence, with a blog promised to arrive someday.
https://bigtub.neocities.org/
Bigtub is a hand-coded personal site built in an old-web aesthetic, featuring shrines and custom-designed pages crafted by a self-taught developer. The landing page highlights accessibility considerations, browser compatibility notes, and animated GIF warnings, signaling a creator deeply invested in the craft of building personal web spaces.
https://lostfocus.de/
Dominik Schwind's personal blog and linkblog, LostFocus, features weeknotes, morning earworm entries, and curated links spanning music, tech, and internet culture. The site embraces IndieWeb principles with RSS feeds, Fediverse/Mastodon integration, and a blogroll in progress.
https://eightyeightthirty.one/
Eightyeightthirtyone is a fascinating project that crawls and maps the interconnected web of 88x31 pixel buttons found across personal and hobbyist websites, visualizing the links between them as a graph. It offers a unique window into the old-web tradition of button exchanges, tracing how sites connect to one another through these tiny badges.
https://pionilaakso.neocities.org/
Peony Valley is a lovingly crafted old-web tribute site by a creator who spent years learning CSS to finally build the early-2000s homepage they always dreamed of. With a Y2K aesthetic, webrings, a button wall, and sections for personal interests, it channels the nostalgic charm of early Geocities-era personal pages.
https://simonc.remotes.club/
Simon C's personal blog on the remotes.club tilde community chronicles his move to work remotely from San Pancho, Mexico, while reflecting on his history with old-school web development communities like evolt.org. The site blends personal travel updates with a lo-fi, experimental web ethos inspired by tilde.club, making it a charming snapshot of the indie web revival of the mid-2010s.
https://hamatti.org/weeklies
Juha-Matti Santala publishes weekly notes collecting interesting links, talks, articles, and small personal discoveries spanning from 2021 through 2024. The archive serves as a running log of curated finds and brief reflections, making it a useful snapshot of one developer and community builder's intellectual curiosity over time.
http://dencity.konzeptrezept.de/
DENCITY.net is an augmented urbanism project by Kai Kasugai and Philipp Hoppe that lets users tag and explore city spaces using mobile camera phones and QR codes, mapping urban environments in a collaborative database. Visitors can browse user-submitted maps, view tagged locations in Google Maps and Google Earth, and contribute to a growing network of geotagged urban data.
https://bukmark.club/
BUKMARK.CLUB is a curated directory of websites that themselves maintain collections of bookmarks and links, making it a meta-directory of the web's most link-happy corners. Created by ttntm in 2024 over scotch and nostalgia, it celebrates the old-web tradition of collecting and sharing links with a no-cookies, no-JavaScript, no-tracking ethos.
https://timharek.no/
Tim Hårek Andreassen is a Norwegian technologist whose personal site focuses on privacy, security, and user-respecting technology. The blog features regular monthly update posts and reflections on building thoughtful digital experiences.