Web Design
1378 sites
https://poddys.com/
The Poddys Directory is a long-running web directory created in 1998, covering an enormous range of topics from jokes and UFOs to genealogy, anime, and cheap phone cards. Despite its dated appearance and some broken links, it remains a nostalgic snapshot of early web curation with a particularly large humor and funny pictures section.
https://yourtilde.com/
Tilde.club is a shared Unix server and community hub where users get personal tilde accounts to host their own pages on the old-web internet. With thousands of active and historical user accounts, a wiki, forge, NNTP, and chat, it is one of the most established nodes in the broader tildeverse network.
https://1mb.club/
The 1MB Club is a curated directory celebrating performance-focused websites that load in under one megabyte, championing the philosophy of lean, fast web design. Visitors can browse hundreds of member sites sorted by file size, submit their own lightweight pages, and read about the project's commitment to a more efficient web.
https://yonei.dev/
Yonei is a personal homepage by a developer and IT worker who collects retro web badges, participates in webrings, and shares links to their social profiles and projects. The site leans into classic old-web aesthetics with a curated badge wall featuring friends and cool sites, plus links to a blog and service status page.
https://crushpunchh.neocities.org/othersites
A personal Neocities page from crushpunchh featuring a collection of webrings, cliques, fanlistings, and curated site buttons centered around Undertale and Deltarune fandom. The page also showcases an impressive plushie collection of UTDR characters and links out to other fan sites, generators, and webmastery resources.
https://snails.town/
Snails.town is a richly built personal archive by a creator who writes about web development, device modding, JavaScript experiments, gaming, and travel, all housed in a charmingly organized site with shrines, a museum, a toybox, and a guestbook. The site leans noticeably into web-building topics, with tutorials, code snippets, articles on Eleventy, Kindle jailbreaking, and graphics automation making up a substantial portion of its content.
https://y2kstardust.neocities.org/
Y2Kstardust is a handcrafted personal homepage by a disabled webmaster who takes accessibility seriously, noting browser compatibility, mobile support, and cookie transparency. The site participates in webrings and cliques with a Y2K-inspired aesthetic, positioning itself as a small corner of the indie web community.
http://opendesigns.org/
OpenDesigns.org is a large open-source web design gallery offering over 2000 free, downloadable website templates searchable by style, color, column layout, license, and keyword tags. With hundreds of thousands of downloads on top-rated templates and community submission features, it serves as a go-to resource for designers seeking ready-made HTML and HTML5 layouts.
https://brentter.com/
Brent's personal tech blog covers web development, self-hosting, open-source tools, Python scripting, and RSS culture with a mix of tutorials and commentary. Posts range from hands-on coding guides (Python APIs, Hugo shortcodes, virtual environments) to nostalgic looks at advertising campaigns and recommendations for interesting websites.
https://johnwienke.nekoweb.org/
John Wienke's cheerful personal homepage is a love letter to the old web, celebrating the spirit of Web 1.0 with a perpetual under-construction aesthetic, free and open source software advocacy, and links to favorite sites. The page champions personal expression online, open source tools like Linux Mint, GIMP, and LibreOffice, and encourages visitors to build their own corners of the internet.