Web Design
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https://456bereastreet.com/
Roger Johansson's 456 Berea Street is a long-running technical blog covering web standards, CSS techniques, accessibility, and usability best practices. Articles range from practical CSS layout tricks to screen reader compatibility tips, making it a valuable reference for front-end developers who care about building the web correctly.
https://awesome-sauce-directory.neocities.org/
The Awesome Sauce Directory is a hand-curated collection of indie and old-web sites that the creator personally enjoys, built as a more organized companion to their overflowing button wall. Visitors can browse recommended sites, grab an award, and submit their own pages via guestbook.
https://hotlinewebring.club/
Hotline Webring is a modern revival of the classic 1990s webring concept, connecting independent personal websites so visitors can discover new and lesser-known corners of the web. It offers an easy join process and maintains a growing directory of member sites spanning Neocities pages, blogs, and personal homepages.
https://scottohara.me/writing
Scott O'Hara's writing archive covers web accessibility, HTML semantics, and ARIA in depth, with articles spanning over a decade of hands-on front-end development experience. Posts tackle nuanced topics like custom UI components, dialog elements, visually hidden content, and popover accessibility, making it an invaluable resource for developers serious about inclusive web design.
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://dir.minty.nu/
EPHEMERAL is a fanlisting collective directory run by Ainna, listing over 70 member collectives from the TFL and TAFL fanlisting networks. Visitors can browse the curated list of fellow collective owners or submit their own site to be included in this old-web community hub.
http://nostalgia.esmartkid.com/BestTopSitesWebring.html
The Best 'TopSites' Webring is a hub connecting homepages dedicated to vote-ranked website directories, where site owners can join and navigate between member pages via a shared navigation panel. Managed by the same ringmaster who oversees numerous other topic-specific webrings, this page also lists a broad collection of other rings covering subjects from geocaching to historic Route 66.
https://doctordizzy.space/
Dizzy's Bunny Hell is a charming Neocities personal site built with accessibility in mind, featuring bitmap fonts, toggleable GIFs, and a retro web aesthetic. The landing page connects to multiple webrings including Geekring, Ladies of the Links, Hotline Ring, and Retronaut, suggesting a hub for eclectic old-web interests.
https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/places-to-find-indie-web-content
Rafał Pastuszak shares a curated list of resources, people, and websites he relies on to discover and write about the indie web, from RSS blogs to niche Discord communities. The post doubles as a practical guide for anyone trying to escape the corporate web and find genuinely interesting independent content online.
https://oldschool.dreaminginflour.org/
Jaq (goodbye_angel) has built a hand-coded home base linking together their various creative projects, most notably their music project 'leaving lost' and their writing site 'dreaming in flour'. A fresh return to personal web-making after years away, the site proudly uses Linux Mint, GIMP, and other open-source tools while participating in old-web webrings.