Web Design
1304 sites
https://cleverdevil.io/
Jonathan LaCour's personal web home since 2002, featuring nearly 16,000 posts spanning microblogs, photos, check-ins, movies watched, and more collected over 25 years. The site showcases an impressive IndieWeb-style timeline with a "Time Machine" feature, yearly review summaries, and a custom feed generator for personalized RSS subscriptions.
https://racarrera.tripod.com/
A Tripod-hosted personal page by racarrera that relies entirely on frames for its layout, leaving the content inaccessible to non-frames browsers. The site is essentially a shell with no retrievable text content, making it a relic of late-1990s frame-based web design.
https://mason.gmu.edu/~afinn/html/tele/components/webrings.htm
A straightforward educational page from a George Mason University student site that explains what webrings are, how they function, and the advantages of joining one. It covers the mechanics of webring navigation and includes a small collection of external links for further reading and webring management.
https://sundaysites.cafe/
Sunday Sites is a community coding club where participants gather roughly once a month on Gather to write HTML together for about two hours, guided by creative prompts like 'Pick a song you like and make a site based on its title.' The result is a growing archive of small, experimental web pages created by members including reidar, chizra, whoislina, and others, making it a charming showcase of collaborative handcrafted web creativity.
https://lamaquinadeturing.su/en/2024/08/the-case-for-a-better-web
La màquina de Turing is a thoughtful multilingual blog that curates essays, manifestos, and projects advocating for a better, more open web, pushing back against surveillance capitalism and platform enshittification. The post featured here collects influential voices like Cory Doctorow and Molly White into a living resource for anyone who misses the creative freedom of the early web.
https://psyclone.nekoweb.org/
Psyclone's corner is a personal homepage on Nekoweb featuring a blog, guestbook, and participation in several webrings including the Retronaut Webring and No AI Webring. The site has a classic old-web aesthetic and includes a note about UK censorship advocacy, making it a small but characterful slice of the indie web.
https://www.hayseed.net/
Hayseed Networks is a personal web presence run by Emerson, a small self-described network host with a tongue-in-cheek Weyland-Yutani Corporation branding nod to the Alien franchise. The site offers webmail and a few basic hosted services, with a charmingly minimal old-web aesthetic and a note about recovering the page from obscurity.
https://acme.com/colormap.html
A comprehensive reference page listing all 216 web-safe colors from the Netscape standard colormap, displayed as clickable hex codes organized in a systematic grid. An essential old-web tool for designers who needed to ensure consistent color rendering across browsers and operating systems in the early web era.
https://lissaexplains.com/
Lissa Explains it All is one of the web's earliest and most beloved HTML tutorial sites aimed specifically at kids and beginners, covering everything from basic tags to advanced topics like CSS, frames, .htaccess files, and Perl scripts. Visitors can also find free CGI scripts, downloadable tools for creating cursors and favicons, an MP3 player, and an active forum for getting help with their own websites.
https://ne555.io/
Nico Einsidler's personal site blends engineering, science, and design through sections covering notes, a personal timeline, beliefs, and current activities. Notable for its commitment to minimal web footprint, the site proudly belongs to the 512KB Club's Green Team and produces only 0.04g of CO2 per visit.