Web Design
1378 sites
https://pudingoii.neocities.org/
Pudingoii's debut website is a lovingly handcrafted homage to the early 2000s web aesthetic, built by someone who taught themselves CSS from scratch to create it. Packed with blinkies, a guestbook, and old-web vibes, it's a charming example of the retro personal homepage revival.
https://flippingtypical.com/
Flipping Typical is a browser-based font preview tool created by Stuart Robinson that lets you instantly compare all the typefaces installed on your computer side by side. Type in any text and see it rendered across dozens of popular fonts simultaneously, with keyboard shortcuts for toggling bold, italic, night mode, and alphabetical sorting.
https://theden.neocities.org/
The Den is a personal homepage on Neocities that participates in the Hotline Webring, featuring a JavaScript-dependent design with a guestbook and status indicator. With minimal visible text and an image-heavy layout, it has the hallmarks of an old-web aesthetic personal site still finding its footing.
https://meropide.neocities.org/
Meropide is a freshly started personal site by a creator learning HTML and building their first custom layout from scratch, inspired by old-web aesthetics. The splash page hints at 18+ content and a work-in-progress spirit, with plans for graphics, multiple pages, and a fully hand-coded design.
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.
http://efatland.com/portfolio/webting/wireframes.html
Eirik Fatland's interaction design portfolio showcases WebTing, a democratic web application he designed as part of his MA thesis 'Democratic Interfaces' at Media Lab Helsinki. The wireframes document a multi-phase civic decision-making tool where users explore, discuss, and vote on issues, offering a fascinating glimpse into early participatory design thinking.
https://proclamations.nebcorp-hias.com/sundries/hitman
A technical blog post from the 'NebCorp Heavy Industries and Sundries' personal site, detailing how the author built 'Hitman', a privacy-conscious website hit counter inspired by the nostalgic Web 1.0 era. The post walks through the full stack implementation using Caddy, Axum, and SQLite, covering architecture decisions around privacy, security, and front-end integration.
https://northtemple.com/1608
Northtemple is a design blog run by a group of designers at the LDS Church, featuring practical web accessibility guidance including a well-regarded checklist by Aaron Cannon aimed at organizations with large teams of developers. The site tackles real-world challenges of scaling accessibility practices across hundreds of developers without requiring deep expertise, making it a useful reference for web professionals.
https://dmitry.khlebnikov.net/2020/05/10/wrap-indicator-in-pre-blocks
Dmitry Khlebnikov's technical blog 'Mind Drops' features a deep-dive post on creating a pure CSS wrap indicator for code blocks, solving a responsiveness problem with PrismJS syntax-highlighted pre elements. The post walks through the author's custom CSS solution using div wrappers, pseudo-elements, and a clip trick, along with a bonus PrismJS plugin developed to integrate the approach.
https://friendlybit.com/tutorial/10-web-ground-rules
Emil Stenström's Friendly Bit presents practical rules for understanding how the web works, covering topics like anonymity, linking, copyright, and online identity. This tutorial-style post from 2008 offers sharp, opinionated guidance for developers and web professionals who want to avoid common pitfalls when building for the web.