indie web
- spec.indieweb.org
- List of Manifestos of the Web Revival
- The IndieWeb Doesn't Need to 'Take Off'
- mew151's Website Manifesto
- myrtletribe on using social media as art platforms
web directories and alt search engines
- Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web
- Marginalia Search
- Litter Layer
- Curlie The Collector of URLs
- A look at search engines with their own indexes by Seirdy
- Indie Web DB by petrapixel
- List of Webrings by petrapixel
stumble upon
web site development
HTML tutorials
html is the basic coding language you need to make a web page.
- HTML for people by Blake Watson
- Odin Project free web development curriculum
- 32-Bit Cafe: Create your own web site
- Cave of Dragonflies HTML guide
- make.yourownwebsite.org
- Pauli Kohberger's beginners guide
- Neocities: Learn HTML with Penelope the Cat
- HTML for Babies
- how to make a website plus loads of other dev tutorials by petrapixel
- Solaria's web making guides
- How to Build a Website (A Beginner’s Quick Start Guide) by Billy Wilcosky •
- html for dummys
- HTML living standard (whatwg)
- HTML Can Do That by Chris Burnell
- My HTML boilerplate in 2026 by Manuel Matuzović
CSS tutorials
css is the coding language that controls the layout of your pages, like setting colours and fonts.
- Flexbox Froggy
- A Complete CSS Flexbox Layout Guide @ css-tricks.com
- css grid via W3Schools
- media query basics @ w3schools
- Using and Making CSS Border Images by solaria
- How to add an external link indicator with pure CSS Sqvrltastic
- Animating details HTML element with pure CSS by Sqvrltastic
- Responsive CSS tutorial by petrapixel
- A Complete CSS Grid Layout Guide css-tricks.com
- grid-template-areas CSS property
- Multiple-column layout by MDN
- Using & Styling the <details> Element with css-tricks.com
- Modern CSS theming with light-dark(), contrast-color(), and style queries
- css-generators.com
JavaScript
javascript is a powerful coding language that can add interactive elements like animations and games to your web pages.
- javascript.info the modern JavaScript tutorial
- mobileConsolev2 embeddable js console for mobile browsers
- (theres also eruda but i haven't tried that one yet.)
- youmightnotneedjquery.com
SEO
search engine optimization is all about getting your site ranked higher on all the search engine thingys.
- Beginner’s Guide to SEO by ahrefs
RSS
really simple syndication is an xml format for notifying people about your posts and updates
- What is RSS? according to Polyducks
- Sqvrltastic's Full guide to RSS
- The BIG List of Neocities RSS Feeds
- W3C RSS validator
- Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For
- rssguide.neocities.org
hosting
to make your own web site you will need a hosting account on a web server.
- Neocities free web hosting
- Nekoweb (like Neocities but different)
- NearlyFreeSpeech.NET (not free but very cheap)
technical notes about neocities
- neocities frequently asked questions by Mevdik
- Neocites hotlinking policy
- some undocumented neocities mechanics
- Finding The Neocities "Algorithm" according to mew151
tools & resources
- MDN HTML Reference
- Codepen.io
- Emojipedia.org
- devicespecshub.com
- htmlcheatsheet.com
- free-for.dev
- htmlcolorcodes.com
- quicktoolshub.org
- isolating.org: your browser signal
- scripted resources
- W3C Link Checker
- markdowntohtml.com
- CodeBeautify.org all the text sɹǝʇɹǝʌuoɔ
web site templates
- Layout Masterlist!
- Gus's Template Site
- HTML demo by Polyducks
- Holy Grail 3-Column Responsive Layout (and more) by Matthew James Taylor
- the LCARS web site template
- new.css (a base stylesheet for semantic html)
web site widgets
- Atabook free guestbooks
- Smart Guestbook
- how to make your own guestbook (no iframes, no fees, no supporter) (using js & Cloudflare workers) re:src •
- hit-counter.net classic web page visitor counter
- 88x31.lol Free Retro Hit Counter Badges for Your Website
- LibreCounter Stats
- RSS Widget by Surfing Waves
- EGGPET
- Embed a Piano by 4four (plus loads of other musical widgets)
- Webamp (Winamp 2 in your browser)
- Prism syntax highlighter
- Web Neko that animated cat thingy
- Zonelets simple blogging tool (and zoneRSS)
- webri.ng barebones hosted web rings
- onion ring web ring js widget (new url)
graphics
image editors & generators:
- GIMP the free & open source image editor
- Inkscape vector graphics editor
- Photopea online photo editor
- piskel sprite editor
- photoresizer.com
- imagecolorpicker.com
- cooltext
- textcraft
- ritual.sh 88x31 button maker
- tiny id button maker
- pixelwave blinkie maker
- Text to ASCII art generator
- realfavicongenerator.net generate and test favicon & code
- vectorization.eu vectorise an image online
- Noise Texture Generator
- ezgif Animated GIF Maker
- standard web banner sizes according to Wikipedia
- sadgirl's tiled background archive
- swifty's free background tiles
- The Internet Pattern Book
- The 88x31 GIF Collection
- Windows 98 Icon Viewer
- The Horror GIF Necronomicon
- textfiles.com - Page Under Construction
- 88x31.nl
- Web Badges World 80x15px badges
- Susie Cards
- Betty's Graphics
fonts
- dafont.com massive library of freeware fonts
- free webfonts collected by humantooth
- The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
- Atkinson Hyperlegible Font by the Braille Institute
- DSEG: 7-segment and 14-segment free fonts
- JGS ascii art font Adel Faure
inspo
- $dir>emptiness
- CSS Zen Garden
- danq: Recreating a 1990 Book Cover (in HTML + CSS)
- Setting type like a printed page carmen ansio
- An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt La Vita Nouva
- Web Design Museum
- Geocities Gallery
- Design Reviewed graphic design archive by Matt Lamont
- Internet Archive
- Ideas for your website @ sam's solar system
- Ideas for your website @ 32-bit cafe
- 75 reasons to start a personal website - James' Coffee Blog
- The Six Types of Content according to The Cave of Dragonflies
- petrapixel's Self-Study Coding Checklist
- slash pages
- Guidelines for Brutalist Web Design
- Phoneblogging by Brennan
- Dan Q: You don’t have to blog like me
- Visual design rules you can safely follow every time (oops)
questionnaires
- 100 Questions for Webmasters by MOUSEcky
and answers from other webmasters compiled by shen. - the 5Ws of reading
- The Political Compass test
misc tech articles
- Change the Color of Visited Links classic usability from Jakob Nielsen
- Letting Product Teams Own SVG Icons
- Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS
- The web standards model according to MDN
- Are We Watching The Internet Die? Where's Your Ed At
- A Brief History of the PNG by Cassidy Williams
scifi links
babylon 5
- Viewing order according to The Babylon Project fandom wiki
- The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5
- B5 Sherlocked Edit
star trek
- The Star Trek Chronology Project
- Memory Alpha fandom wiki
- Chief O'Brien at Work the comic
- The Real McCoy Leonard McCoy shrine
- The Star Trek MIDI page
- Why the ruckus about a Black Vulcan? c.1994 according to rec.arts.startrek.current
- Star Trek: Legacy TMP recut via vimeo
- Physicist does the math on Star Trek’s “Picard maneuver” according to ars technica
- space: the final frontier… star trek reviews (altalenae)
- Star Trek birthdays - Hexagonification
red dwarf
- Watch Red Dwarf on iPlayer
- Complete guide to Red Dwarf (official site)
- Tongue Tied Red Dwarf fandom wiki
- Starbug Building Kit (LEGO compatible)
- game reviews by p7uen: Red Dwarf: Simulant's Revenge & Red Dwarf XII: The Game (who knew?)
misc
- How time travel works in Primer according to This is Barry
- Jedi News
- Douglas Adams' homepage
- h2g2 game by infocom, archived @ BBC
- The X-files Episode Guide
- Doctor Who mood icons
actual science
NASA images • Eyes on the Solar System @ nasa • Equal Earth Wall Map •more bookmarks
funny pages
- The Procatinator via divergent rays
- Weebl and Bob
- XKCD
- Brian Kelly Draws: True Tales from the Bar
- whatsthenameofthatguywhoplayeddoctorstrange.com
- Furbys Against Fascism!
- cones.lol
- Stupid Frog Joke of the Day! (all about frogs)
- jokes.net
games
- Scratch Asteroids by alex
- polyduck's games
- epicgamerwebsite
- Interaktiv: Schiffe versenken michi's version of battleships
- Lumenia (a game by Billy Wilcosky)
- playdaily.org
- skribbl.io Free Multiplayer Drawing & Guessing Game
- Real Bird Fake Bird A Daily Trivia Game
- CACTUS, a two-player strategy Game
- The eyeballing game
- cssDOOM
- Q3JS Play Quake III Arena in your browser
- SuperTuxKart free racing game, didn't realise it was available on Android:)
- play.tetris.com
- GAM.ONL Play Retro Games Online
literature
- The Literature Page - Read classic books by famous authors online
- Poetry Foundation
- They went to sea in a Sieve, they did — Edward Lear •
- BookWyrm: Social Reading and Reviewing
music
- zYklen dark ambient @ novinyl.net
- NinSheetMusic video game sheet music for pianists
- vic-fontaine.com (the star trek MIDI page)
- train jazz
