Web Design
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https://pudingoii.neocities.org/
Pudingoii's debut website is a lovingly handcrafted homage to the early 2000s web aesthetic, built by someone who taught themselves CSS from scratch to create it. Packed with blinkies, a guestbook, and old-web vibes, it's a charming example of the retro personal homepage revival.
https://internetphonebook.net/?call=585&issue=1
The Internet Phone Book is an annual printed and digital publication by Kristoffer Tjalve and Elliott Cost that celebrates the personal web, featuring essays, musings, and a curated directory of personal websites by designers, developers, writers, and educators. It doubles as a physical book available worldwide through Metalabel, with a live book tour hitting venues from Ljubljana to London, making it a unique artifact bridging the indie web movement and print culture.
https://kiwimeowo.nekoweb.org/
KiwiMeowo's cozy personal corner on Nekoweb features a diary, about page, and a chatbox for visitors to connect with the creator. The site has a cute, kawaii aesthetic with frequent updates and a mobile-friendly layout, making it a charming little slice of old-web personal homepage culture.
https://blogscroll.com/
BlogScroll is an open directory of personal blogs and independent websites, maintained on GitHub by Den Delimarsky as a way to surface small digital gardens and personal corners of the internet outside Big Tech platforms. With hundreds of entries organized by category and features like an RSS feed, OPML export, and a 'Surprise Me' button, it's a delightful way to rediscover the human-scale web.
https://zephnet.biz/
Zephyr Prusinski is a Philadelphia-based web developer and livecoder who blogs about web standards, accessibility, and hardware tinkering projects. The site also documents the recurring Homebrew Website Club Philadelphia meetups he organizes, making it a hub for the local IndieWeb community.
https://eev.ee/blog/2016/03/06/maybe-we-could-tone-down-the-javascript
Eevee (Evelyn Woods) writes a pointed critique of JavaScript overuse in modern web development, using a real browser bug she experienced to illustrate how heavily sites like Twitter break without JS enabled. The post digs into frontend web development practices, arguing that many JS-dependent features could be replicated with simpler HTML or CSS approaches.
https://flamedfury.neocities.org/links
Flamed Fury's curated links page collects blogrolls, web tools, and developer resources from the indie web community, with a strong focus on personal sites built with Eleventy, Neocities, and modern front-end techniques. The list highlights figures like Cory Dransfeldt, Robb Knight, and Kevin Powell, making it a solid starting point for anyone exploring the small web and IndieWeb movement.
https://goodjobsuzette.neocities.org/
GoodJobSuzette's personal Neocities site features a navigation hub linking to an about page, blog, mods section, and guestbook. The 'Mods' section suggests game modding as a notable interest, giving this image-heavy personal homepage a gaming-adjacent flavor.
https://stylestage.dev/
Style Stage is a community-driven CSS showcase inspired by the legendary CSS Zen Garden, where contributors submit alternate stylesheets to redesign the same base HTML page in wildly different ways. Maintained by Stephanie Eckles of ModernCSS.dev, it serves as both a living gallery of modern CSS techniques and an open invitation for CSS practitioners of any skill level to demonstrate what the language can do.
https://calzonie.neocities.org/
Calzone's personal Neocities homepage greets visitors with a bold splash page, webring links, and a playful warning about cuss words and heavy construction. The site leans into classic old-web aesthetics with a dense image layout, gang-style navigation humor, and a handcrafted feel that's clearly a work in progress.