Web Design
1378 sites
https://iwebthings.joejenett.com/
Joe Jenett's i.webthings hub is a long-running web log and link aggregator curated since 2010, surfacing interesting finds from across the indie and old web including CSS tools, open-source projects, creative web experiments, and webring trails. It serves as a personal web curation hub with an accompanying directory, making it a beloved fixture in the small-web and independent web community.
https://tilde.club/~englishm
Mike English's tilde.club homepage is an early example of the indie web revival, featuring curated links to favorite tilde.club members, reflections on internet culture, and connections to the tilde.town community he helped start. The page captures a nostalgic enthusiasm for the open web, with quotes from Wired, John Perry Barlow, and Ken Thompson alongside personal tidbits about SSH escape characters and early Twitter.
http://opendesigns.org/
OpenDesigns.org is a large open-source web design gallery offering over 2000 free, downloadable website templates searchable by style, color, column layout, license, and keyword tags. With hundreds of thousands of downloads on top-rated templates and community submission features, it serves as a go-to resource for designers seeking ready-made HTML and HTML5 layouts.
https://xn--z7x.xn--6frz82g/
A minimalist personal homepage styled as a terminal interface, titled 'Cat Move' in Japanese, with a sparse command-line aesthetic and links to a blog, GitHub, and webring. The site is light on content but has a distinctive lo-fi, old-web charm built around a cat theme.
https://hotsocket.fyi/
HotSocket.fyi is a minimalist personal landing page with an ASCII art logo and a playful techie personality, linking out to a dictionary, cool stuff, last.fm status, and social profiles. The site runs on Deno and leans into a whimsical, old-web-meets-modern-stack aesthetic.
https://webringdemo.netlify.app/
Nerds of the 90s is a demo webring project built to showcase how webrings work, using a nostalgic 90s internet theme as its example subject. The site includes member listings, an embed code snippet for badges, and instructions for forking the project to host your own webring on Github.
https://anybrowser.org/
Home of the Viewable With Any Browser Campaign, this site by Cari D. Burstein advocates for accessible web design that works across all browsers and platforms. It also hosts a collection of related resources including BBEdit tips, game guides, and archived community pages from various old-web projects.
https://webheaven.neocities.org/
Webheaven is a charming, lightly staffed personal site with a welcoming, whimsical premise inviting visitors to meet its creator and explore the space. The site is in early stages with minimal content currently visible, but the playful framing and hand-crafted Neocities aesthetic hint at a creative personal project in progress.
https://dir.midnight-cloud.net/
CliqueLink is a curated directory of old-web style cliques, created by Christina, helping visitors discover and join themed online communities organized around shared interests like gaming, art, music, and retro aesthetics. With 23 listed cliques and a classic personal-web sensibility, it serves as a hub for building digital social circles in the tradition of sites like Cloudplane and Project Clique.
https://weirdweboctober.website/
Weird Web October is a month-long creative challenge where participants build a new website every day of October based on daily themes, inspired by Inktober and organized by Jay Zuerndorfer. The project is a joyful rallying cry to bring back the weird, fun, experimental spirit of the early web, complete with example sites like Staggering Beauty and Pink Trombone to inspire participants.