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.
http://tilde.club/~loveallthis
Sarah's tilde.club page is an early personal slice of the tilde.club movement, capturing the excitement and learning curve of setting up a personal unix-hosted page in 2014. She muses on community, cheerleading for others, and the philosophy of the early web revival, with links to fellow tilde members and a webring.
https://watermelon.crd.co/
Toto's resource site offers a rich collection of free CSS codes, animated effects, graphics, and tips specifically for building Carrd websites, covering everything from custom cursors to falling petals backgrounds. With hundreds of ready-to-use snippets organized into borders, text animations, background effects, and more, it's a go-to toolkit for anyone decorating their personal Carrd page.
https://atapi.space/
Atapi's Domain is a lovingly crafted old-web personal homepage built with a retro 1024x768 aesthetic, complete with tacky GIFs, autoplay music, and legacy browser support. The site leans heavily into classic web nostalgia with features like Oneko, randomized page elements, and a proudly "WEB-14" content rating.
http://jacopocolo.com/hexclock
Created by Jacopo Colò, this minimalist tool displays the current time as a hexadecimal color code, cycling through the full 24-hour range from #000000 to #235959. It's a clever and nerdy intersection of color theory and timekeeping, offering a novel way to visualize hours, minutes, and seconds as a continuously shifting dark palette.
https://mikeb.work/
Mike Borsare's personal hub is a quirky, ASCII-art-heavy dashboard featuring a personal blog, announcements, a 'prime doctrine' philosophy feed, and links to small projects like NHL 94, a dice roller, and a Trinitron-themed app. The retro terminal aesthetic, hotline webring membership, and open-source doctrine JSON give it the feel of a thoughtfully crafted personal OS built for the web.
https://lataccola.neocities.org/
La Taccola is a handcrafted personal homepage on Neocities with an old-web aesthetic, featuring a lounge-style layout, guestbook, webrings, and a collection of web badges celebrating open-source tools and digital rights. The site leans into classic indie web culture with stamps supporting Firefox, right to repair, and anti-NFT sentiments, making it a charming example of the Neocities revival scene.
https://gossipsweb.net/
Gossip's Web is a curated directory of handmade personal webpages, celebrating the craft of independently built websites with a searchable index and tags describing each site's themes. It also offers customizable HTML templates to help visitors create their own handcrafted corner of the web.
https://www.duncanmackenzie.net/
Duncan Mackenzie's personal blog covers engineering management, software development practices, and web performance, with posts ranging from peer feedback strategies to adding e-commerce and photo galleries to a Hugo-based site. The mix of leadership advice and hands-on technical tutorials makes it a practical read for developers moving into management or building their own web projects.
https://monoki.neocities.org/
Monoki's Moon-Landing is a whimsical personal homepage on Neocities with a space-themed intro that invites visitors to 'land on the moon' before entering the site. The splash page features atmospheric background music and creative worldbuilding prose, hinting at a handcrafted old-web aesthetic within.