Web Design
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https://24ways.org/2011/your-jquery-now-with-less-suck
24 ways is a long-running web advent calendar publishing daily articles on web development and design throughout December, and this particular piece by Scott Kosman dives into practical jQuery performance optimizations for developers. The article covers common pitfalls like inefficient selectors and event handling, backed by jsperf benchmarks, making it a useful reference for anyone writing JavaScript for real-world projects.
https://adamngshrine.com/
Adam's personal shrine is a handcrafted retro-style website inspired by old-web and Y2K aesthetics, with the color palette drawn from the vertical shooter game Zero Ranger. The site documents Adam's web development journey since 2023 and includes sections for anime interests, blogs, Touhou content, and a glimpse at his system specs and tech setup.
https://blog.clew.se/posts/secret-web
Benjamin Hollon explores the concept of the 'secret web,' a thriving ecosystem of personal websites, blogs, and webrings that exists outside the reach of search engines and social media algorithms. The post dives into communities like the IndieWeb, Small Web, and Web Revival movement, examining how human-curated discovery tools such as blogrolls, RSS feeds, and webrings help independent sites find each other.
https://internetphonebook.net/?call=585&issue=1
The Internet Phone Book is an annual printed and digital publication by Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost that celebrates the personal web, featuring essays, musings, and a curated directory of personal websites by designers, developers, writers, and educators. It doubles as a physical book available worldwide through Metalabel, with a live book tour hitting venues from Ljubljana to London, making it a unique artifact bridging the indie web movement and print culture.
https://ivndbt.com/
Ivan is a mechanical engineer from northern Italy who runs this minimalist personal site featuring notes, builds, and a curated blogroll celebrating the small web. The site has a thoughtful, intentional quality with a text playlist of recommended reads and a 'now' page, reflecting a genuine enthusiasm for indie blogging culture.
https://nickyturner.neocities.org/
Nicky Turner's Neocities personal hub features a collection of site buttons, webring memberships, and curated links to sites that inspired them. The page leans heavily into old-web aesthetics with webrings, cliques, and a community-focused spirit of promoting other creators.
https://danabyerly.com/
Dana Byerly is an interaction designer and front-end developer who has been building on the web since 1996, sharing notes and articles about side projects, tools, and the craft of keeping things simple with HTML and CSS. The site reflects a thoughtful, minimalist philosophy with a colophon, style guide, accessibility statement, and a no-AI commitment that make it a great example of intentional web design practice.
https://epic1.nekoweb.org/
mbafz's colorful personal homepage features a retro-web aesthetic with flashing lights, background music, and old-school design sensibilities. The site is part of the Retronaut webring and bills itself as a window into the creator's brain, complete with mood tracking and a dramatic enter page.
https://aleclownes.com/2017/02/01/crt-display.html
A technical tutorial by Alec Lownes breaking down how to recreate the nostalgic look of old CRT televisions using pure CSS effects including scanlines, flicker, and color separation. The article walks through each visual component step by step, complete with code snippets and live examples showing screen-door effects built from linear gradients.
https://blogroll.club/
Blogroll Club is a curated directory of 333 blogs organized into categories like Art, Gaming, History, Music, Photography, and more, giving visitors an easy way to discover active personal blogs across the web. It harkens back to the old-web tradition of blogrolls, offering RSS subscription support and a submission form so bloggers can get their sites listed.