Web Design
1378 sites
https://yoohoosearch.neocities.org/
Yoohoo is a search engine and directory built specifically for exploring Neocities websites, offering curated sections like Best Of, Recommends, and a NeoCade. It serves as a hub for discovering the old-web revival community, complete with a guestbook, archives, and a dedicated Neocities directory.
https://accessible-webmastery.neocities.org/
Sparrow's Guide to Accessible Webmastery is a practical reference site teaching old-web creators how to make their handcrafted websites more accessible without sacrificing creativity or personality. Packed with tutorials, a quick-start guide, and curated resources, it bridges the gap between expressive indie web design and modern accessibility standards.
https://macram.es/
Manu Mateos runs a Spanish-language personal blog where he writes about technology, the internet, and everyday life, with sections dedicated to music, films, TV, and books he has enjoyed. Built with Hugo and featuring an almanac, tagcloud, and slash pages, it is a well-organized indie web presence with a clear passion for digital culture.
http://sketchpad.net/opentype-fonts.htm
Created by Mike Doughty, this detailed reference page explains the OpenType font format and its advantages for cross-platform compatibility between Macintosh and Windows. Part of a larger tutorials site covering Photoshop, Illustrator, and other design tools, it covers OpenType features like ligatures, swash characters, and expert sets with links to official Adobe and Microsoft specifications.
https://tilde.club/~tweska/gallery
Created by tilde.club user ~tweska, this gallery archives over 1000 screenshots of tilde.club member homepages, organized alphabetically for easy browsing. It's a fascinating snapshot of the tilde community's creative personal web presence, complete with an automated scraper that keeps pages updated.
https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway
Smallweb Subway is a creative project by Gus Bus that visualizes a network of webrings as an interactive subway map, where each colored line represents a themed community of indie websites covering topics like sci-fi art, zines, comics, and poetry. Visitors can "ride" the subway by clicking through member sites, making web discovery feel like navigating a transit system.
http://list-me.com/
List-Me.com is a free, non-elite web directory that has been running since 2004, welcoming personal sites, fan pages, and creative projects without requiring payment or elite status to join. With over 350 links spanning art, fandom, personal collectives, and more, it serves as a low-barrier hub for the old-web and indie web communities.
https://brutalist-web.design/
Created by David Bryant Copeland, this site lays out a philosophy of web design inspired by brutalist architecture, advocating for content-first, honest, and performant websites. It presents a set of practical guidelines covering readability, navigation, scrolling, decoration, and performance that challenge the bloated conventions of modern web design.
https://ladiesofthe.link/
Ladies of the Links is a webring connecting personal websites run by women and fem-aligned people, offering a curated community space with a growing list of member sites. The ring includes a simple sign-up form, membership rules emphasizing inclusivity, and code snippets for members to embed the ring navigation widget on their own pages.
https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html
Carlos Fenollosa shares a detailed and candid account of abandoning self-hosted email after 23 years, arguing that a handful of tech giants have effectively killed the open, distributed nature of email. The post is a compelling mix of technical insight and personal frustration, documenting the practical barriers that make running your own mail server nearly impossible today.