Web Design
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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://tilde.town/~ydreniv/blog/tilde-site-setup
Ydreniv walks through the technical setup of their tilde.town personal site, covering tools like the Zola static site generator, Makefiles for automation, and Pushl for sending webmentions as part of IndieWeb integration. The post is a detailed how-to for anyone curious about running a low-overhead static site on a shared Unix server.
http://stpt.com/
Starting Point is a long-running web directory dating back to 1995, offering site listings and a submission form for adding new sites. The page is nearly bare of content, presenting little more than a shell of what was once a general-purpose web and business directory.
https://cssdrawings.com/
Alvaro Montoro's remarkable project showcases an extensive gallery of illustrations and animations created entirely with CSS using a single HTML div element. Each piece demonstrates creative use of CSS properties to produce detailed art, from animated cartoons to pop culture references, with many entries accompanied by coding tutorial videos.
https://zptr.cc/
Yui's personal homepage features a cozy collection of friend site links, webrings, and live stats including coding hours tracked and local weather. The site showcases a handcrafted old-web aesthetic with a blog, gallery, and projects section, and points visitors toward a new home at yui.dev.
https://davekellam.com/
Dave Kellam is a developer, designer, and teacher who shares thoughts on programming, the open web, and internet culture through a long-running personal blog. Recent posts touch on topics like early blogging nostalgia, the philosophy of programming, and reweirding the web, making it a thoughtful stop for anyone interested in web craft and digital life.
https://northernstar.nu/
Eunice's personal homepage 'Northern Star' is a newly launched old-web style site featuring sections for about me, domain info, links, fanlistings, and cliques. The meta keywords highlight websets and webrings, suggesting the site's content will center on web design resources and personal web culture.
https://yahuh.co/
Justine's personal domain YAHUH is a lovingly crafted old-web revival site built to rekindle her passion for designing and coding on the web. Featuring cliques, blogcrews, fanlistings, and nostalgic personal touches, it captures the spirit of early 2000s web culture with a modern hand.
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://guestbook.goodenough.us/
A gallery of visitor-submitted drawings sent to a physical 'little printer' connected to the GoodEnough.us website, now preserved as an archive since the printer has gone offline. Each entry shows a hand-drawn submission alongside the contributor's name and date, making it a charming record of internet strangers leaving creative marks on a quirky interactive project.