Web Design
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https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2024/136/a1/indieweb_principles
Paul Robert Lloyd's personal site features a thoughtful essay examining the IndieWeb movement's 11 guiding principles, questioning whether they still serve the community's goals in 2024. Written after attending IndieWebCamp in Düsseldorf, the post proposes condensing the principles into a more accessible framework and invites community discussion on the IndieWeb wiki.
https://ely.pub.moe/
Elysia's hand-coded personal site is a playful, experimental space packed with hidden pages, webrings, and a wide range of interests including Fire Emblem, Minecraft, trains, fighting games, photography, and dress-up. The site doubles as a creative sandbox where the webmistress deliberately leaves things semi-hidden and frequently broken as part of the exploratory fun.
https://cyberzettel.com/
Cyberzettel is Brad Enslen's personal note-keeping system and blog built on ClassicPress, covering topics like zettelkasten methods, digital gardens, search engines, and typewriters. It doubles as a living commonplace book where Brad documents his explorations of indie web tools, alternative search engines, and analog writing instruments.
https://germicelli.neocities.org/
Germicelli's personal page 'oogie' is a minimal, stylized landing page with a charming retro web aesthetic. Nearly empty of content, it serves as a welcome entry point with little more than a greeting and a single image.
https://lone-eagles.com/webdev.htm
A curated directory of free web page authoring tools, hosting platforms, and software resources aimed at beginners looking to build their first website. The page covers everything from drag-and-drop site builders like Weebly and Homestead to HTML tutorials, free collaboration tools, and software download sites.
https://killbot.neocities.org/
Killbot's site is a personal Neocities homepage that is heavy on imagery with minimal text, featuring a visit statistics tracker. The sparse content and image-forward layout suggest an early-stage or minimal personal page with old-web aesthetics.
https://apaddedcell.com/web-fonts
A Padded Cell is a web design help site featuring a comprehensive guide to pre-installed fonts across Linux, Mac, and Windows, authored by Megan McDermott in 2007. The guide covers font availability by operating system, CSS font stacking techniques, and foreign language fonts, making it an invaluable reference for designers seeking to move beyond the basic core web font set.
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://hause.neocities.org/
Dean's personal homepage 'hause' celebrates its one-year anniversary with a fresh redesign inspired by an older 'stickdroidz' aesthetic. The site serves as a curated jumping-off point, featuring links to cool forums, web directories, search engines, and web hosting options.
http://csscollection.com/
CSS Collection is a curated showcase directory featuring thousands of websites built with CSS and tableless design techniques, serving as an inspiration gallery for web designers and developers. With over 3,425 submitted sites organized by category, it highlights exemplary CSS-driven design work ranging from portfolios to agency sites.