Web Design
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https://gabriel-export.earth/html-energy-webring
The HTML Energy Webring connects 29 member sites united by the HTML Energy movement, celebrating the handcrafted, expressive side of the indie web. Built with OnionRing.js and inspired by the ethos that the open web is still alive, this ring offers a curated portal into personal and creative sites made with raw HTML enthusiasm.
https://flawed.one/
Sam, known online as relict.mkv, has built a heartfelt personal corner of the web in Edinburgh, UK, celebrating the spirit of late 90s and early 2000s internet culture with a weblog, guestbook, drawbox, and links to personal favourites. The site wears its indie web philosophy proudly, complete with webrings, web buttons, and a manifesto advocating for personal spaces over corporate social media.
https://freedns.afraid.org/
FreeDNS, created by Joshua Anderson, is a long-running free DNS hosting service offering dynamic DNS, static DNS, subdomain hosting, and domain management tools for hobbyists and developers alike. With support for IPv6, wildcard DNS, web forwarding, and thousands of shared domains, it has been a staple utility for anyone needing flexible DNS services since 2001.
https://doglike.nekoweb.org/
Weird Dog is a handcrafted personal homepage on Nekoweb built with a playful, old-web aesthetic featuring gifs, marquees, and hoverable text elements. The site greets visitors with a friendly content warning about its amateur coding, bright colors, and mild language before inviting them inside.
http://webmaster-tool.co.uk/
A large free graphics archive offering over 5,300 downloadable web design assets including animated flags, page borders, backgrounds, counter digits, bullets, and webpage templates. The site also provides free WordPress themes, a text editor tool, and resellable software, making it a practical toolkit for webmasters building old-school websites.
https://transparenttextures.com/
Transparent Textures is a free web resource built by Mike Hearn that lets designers browse, preview, and download hundreds of seamless tileable background patterns for use in websites and digital projects. Visitors can choose a custom color and instantly see how any pattern looks, then copy the CSS directly for use in their own designs.
https://archive.webstandards.org/mission.html
The Web Standards Project (WaSP) was a grassroots coalition fighting to ensure browser makers properly implemented W3C standards like HTML 4.0, CSS, and XML so that web development would be affordable and consistent across platforms. This archived mission page outlines their core argument that non-compliant browsers were fragmenting the web and harming developers, businesses, and users alike.
https://cyber.dabamos.de/88x31
A massive archive of over 4,540 classic 88x31 pixel buttons from the 1990s, 2000s, and beyond, all available in GIF format for free use on your own website. Spanning five parts and regularly updated, this collection is an invaluable nostalgia trove for anyone recreating the old-web aesthetic or building a retro-style homepage.
https://zumi.neocities.org/
Zumi's Scratchpad is a minimalist personal homepage on Neocities featuring a blog, bookmarks, tutorials, and a theme switcher for toggling between site styles. Part of the Hotline Webring, it has a charming self-deprecating tone and offers a peek into the creator's random internet finds and ramblings.
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.