Web Design
1378 sites
https://tilde.town/~cadence/websites.html
Cadence's curated list of favorite handmade, personality-filled personal websites celebrates the organic, exploratory joy of the old web and tilde-style internet. Alongside the link collection, the page points visitors toward webrings, Neocities, and web development references like a CSS Flexbox guide and color tools.
https://htmlhobbyist.neocities.org/?webring=htmlhobbyist
N.E. Lilly (Nathan) built this Neocities hub as a companion to The HTML Hobbyist, a resource dedicated to teaching people how to build their own websites with HTML and CSS. Driven by nostalgia for the early open web, the site links to tutorials on HTML, CSS, and the history of the World Wide Web, aimed at anyone who wants to reclaim their online presence from corporate platforms.
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://eva.town/webrings
Eva Decker's webring membership page lists the various web communities she belongs to, including rings focused on digital accessibility, CSS, LGBTQ+ coding, and design systems. It offers a window into the old-web revival scene where practitioners connect through curated loops of related personal and professional sites.
https://coroneta.tripod.com/
Crystalis Designs, run by Annie Jessan, offers free website layouts, graphics, banners, and buttons for other webmasters to download and use. With a collection of anime and manga inspired layouts and pop-up and frames styles, it serves as a classic early-2000s web graphics resource site.
https://archives.somnolescent.net/web/mari_nc2/essays/webrings.html
Mariteaux makes a pointed argument against webrings as a solution to the impersonal modern web, responding directly to a piece by GOODMODE and offering their own take on how people should share and discover sites they love. The essay is part of a broader collection of thinkpieces on Neocities culture, web communities, and what makes the indie web worth caring about.
https://mist.drr.ac/
Mist is a curated archive of CSS and HTML codes created by finderqirl (also known as Neo/Kai) specifically for building and customizing Carrd sites. Visitors will find an extensive collection of text effects, image codes, layout resources, fonts, and background assets, all demonstrated with video examples.
https://manos.malihu.gr/style-my-tooltips-jquery-plugin
Manos (malihu) runs a web design blog focused on creating and sharing free jQuery plugins, templates, and tutorials for developers. This particular page documents the Style-my-tooltips jQuery plugin, a lightweight script that replaces default browser tooltips with CSS-styleable custom ones.
https://32bit.cafe/
32-Bit Cafe is a community hub for personal web enthusiasts, hobbyists, and professionals dedicated to reviving the indie web and encouraging self-expression outside of corporate social media. Members get access to tutorials on building personal websites, free services like email and a Git instance, community forums, and collaborative events like code jams.
http://thewave.ws/
Website.ws is a domain registration and hosting service that offered lifetime internet addresses using the .ws (Western Samoa) top-level domain. The page captured here is a redirect shell with no real content, pointing visitors to the main website.ws landing page for domain management.