Web Design
1378 sites
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://muahchee.net/
Muahchee's digital home serves as a hub linking to various personal web projects, including an art gallery, microblog, personal wiki, and a blog, all built as part of a self-taught webdev journey starting in late 2024. The site has a cozy, handcrafted old-web aesthetic complete with ambient music, animated GIFs, blinkies, and fun personal facts sprinkled throughout.
https://squiggle.city/
Squiggle City is a tilde-style shared Unix server community, listing its many user home pages with timestamps and profile blurbs in classic terminal-style ASCII art. It connects a lively collection of personal pages from members like nightliz, dawnbreeze, and dozens more, evoking the collaborative spirit of early internet shell communities.
https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/places-to-find-indie-web-content
Rafał Pastuszak shares a curated list of resources, people, and websites he relies on to discover and write about the indie web, from RSS blogs to niche Discord communities. The post doubles as a practical guide for anyone trying to escape the corporate web and find genuinely interesting independent content online.
http://onlinetools.org/articles/unobtrusivejavascript/chapter2.html
Chapter 2 of Christian Heilmann's 'Unobtrusive JavaScript' tutorial series, teaching developers how to navigate and manipulate HTML elements using the DOM without inline event handlers. The guide covers getElementById, getElementsByTagName, node tree traversal, and practical rollover examples with downloadable demos.
http://brokenpixel.com/
Brokenpixel.com appears to be a minimal site with almost no retrievable content, consisting of a single image with no title or text. Without further accessible content, the site's dominant topic cannot be determined beyond its bare shell presence.
https://nest.jakl.one/likes/2022-06-21-bzk8b
Tomáš Jakl's personal webnest features microposts and curated web links, with this entry highlighting a resource on independent search engines. The site embraces IndieWeb principles, supporting Webmention interactions and a low-carbon footprint ethos.
https://dyremyhr.no/
Mats Dyremyhr Bakke is a Norwegian IT consultant based in Halden who shares his professional background, education, and online presence through this minimalist personal homepage. The site participates in several old-web rings including the Geekring, LowTech Webring, Fediring, and Retronaut Webring, reflecting a fondness for indie web culture.
https://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/css-text-rotation
Jonathan Snook's technical article demonstrates how to achieve CSS text rotation across multiple browsers, including Internet Explorer 5.5, using transform properties and filters. The post offers clean HTML markup examples and browser-specific CSS prefixes, making it a practical reference for front-end developers tackling cross-browser layout challenges.
https://gifcity.carrd.co/
GIFCITY is a massive archive of free web graphics including blinkies, stamps, buttons, dividers, icons, backgrounds, and animated GIFs organized for old-web enthusiasts. Built after a predecessor site went down in 2021, it offers code previews and a dark-themed layout housing thousands of collectible graphics for personal pages.