Fancoders: For baby and professional coders familiar with fandom, with a kink-positive queer audience in mind.

Neocities: Make your own site for free, and browse the directory of user pages! Cutesy faux-y2k aesthetic is popular there. Very poor moderation, be wary of clicking randomly lest ye see IRL gore or hate speech.

32-Bit Cafe: Resources and community for old, slow, personal web enthusiasts.

Transmasculine Pride Ring: A webring for trans men and transmasculine people.

DykeWrite A site and webring devoted to dyke issues, culture, and community.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Webring: A group of fans of any and all of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime and manga series, including the OCG and TCG!

Brisray Webring List: A comprehensive list of JS based webrings.

Town of Silent Hill: A collective site archiving official and fan-made Silent Hill websites.

FGC.network: Fighting games on the fediverse.

Bobaboard: Upcoming anonymous imageboard, with a kink-positive queer audience in mind.

blorbo.social: Ship-friendly, fandom focused, microblogging instance. Has policies against harassment, racism, homophobia, etc.

Aethy: Adult-friendly art and hobbyist instance. Has policies against harassment, racism, homophobia, etc. Has similar art policies to AO3, so get your content muting filters ready if you need them.

misskey.design: Art-focused instance. Seems original art focused rather than fanart. Follows Japanese law, so censor your genitals and don't talk about Homer Simpson smoking weed.

MelonLand Wiki: I've linked specifically to the web host collection page for reviews on hosting. There may be other articles of interest to you.

Complete beginner's guide to installing Mastodon (+ Hometown) : Ostensibly says that a complete beginner can follow it to make their own instance, but it requires you to use linux/command line which is gonna kill 90% of beginners.

Ringfairy: a SSG for webrings.

mmm.page: Drag-and-drop sitebuilder.

Glitch: A sitebuilding platform that's more complex and does more stuff than Neocities, and posits itself as an alternative to carrd.

Kalechips list of web hosts: A list of web hosts with some reviews. Doesn't note whether they allow NSFW art. My list of site hosts: Last updated in 2023. Notes whether the host allows NSFW art.

Nekoweb: Similar to Neocities, a free site host that lets you explore other users's pages.

Screen Tones Podcast: Comparison of hosting options for webcomics. Has a secondary comparison of webcomics platforms.

Web Design Museum: “Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of screens and videos of old websites, mobile apps and software from 1990s to mid-00s”.

My Page Is Designed To Last: Notes on simplifying web pages.

my website is one binary: Article about simple website design

Indieweb Assimilation: A list of links and resources for making and finding small sites.

Resources List for the Personal Web: More links and resources for making and finding small sites.

The 11ty Bundle: Many resources for using the Eleventy SSG.

Lost Letters: A Guide to Setting up Jekyll for Complete Beginners: Geared towards Neocities users.

broider: “This a tool for making “9-patch” borders. You can copy the css to use with your own sites!”“

Guestbooks: A modern, free guestbook for your site.

Migrating to Eleventy: How to use Eleventy, “a static site generator (SSG) [that] lets me set up templates to edit the entire site very quickly.” SSGs are good for menu navs on every page, I hear.

Shark Coder: A very simple, easy to read guide to HTML and CSS. My favorite parts of the site are the usable examples of how to style elements like buttons, lists, and so on.

Templaterr: I'm using their navbar code as a base!

GifCities: An archive of 90's gifs.

Windows 98 Icon Viewer: Pixel icons.

Nanogallery2: The JS image gallery I use.

Making an automatically updating image gallery with javascript

photosheet: Converts files in a folder into an HTML gallery.

11ty, GitHub and Neocities: How to use the 11ty SSG and github with Neocities. Will be useful to me once I transfer some of my sites to a SSG lol.

Melon's Gallery Maker: A downloadable program that creates HTML from a folder of images. Has editable templates Shortens the painstaking process of copy/pasting image names and paths.

Tribune: A tool that allows you to create a blog with re-usable widgets on each page (header, footer, etc) for Neocities. Seems to be a soft introduction to the concept of a SSG for beginners on Neocities.

Strawberry Starter: A simple and cute 11ty/eleventy template, geared for those using Neocities and looking to get into SSGs.

Fool Lovers: Cute Japanese themes.

REPTH themes: Cute 2000's style blog pages.

html5 templates: A mix of modern styling that you can easily make your own.

Eggramen: A personal site that includes writing, resources, and CSS themes.

Rarebit: JS Webcomic template with easy-to-read documentation within the HTML. I used it for my Just Gorly Thingz comic.

Sadgrl.online: Easy-to-read resources for making your own site, including coding tutorials and templates.

CSS Grid Generator: A visualizer for CSS Grid, which is great for making layouts.

Ryan's Layouts: Two fun layouts based on the SCP wiki and 2010 tumblr.

Kalechips layout thrift store: Responsive layouts with a modern (but not too simple!) feel.

Tholman 90's Cursor effects: Annoying sparkly cursors!

CSS Tricks: Stylin' pages.

Codemyui: CSS snippets.

Retro CSS Frameworks: CSS frameworks are premade site themes. I edited parts of 98.css on my manifesto and characters pages.

Pokémon GameBoy CSS: The border and font I'm using for my site's light mode.

Hint.css: Hover tooltips using only CSS and the HTML span function.

CSS layout: A collection of popular layouts and patterns made with CSS.

CSS patterns: Seamless patterns created and editable with code. No need to upload an image, and you can change the colors instantly.

CSS Arrow Please: CSS only word bubble generator

CSS Duotone generator: Turn your images into 2 colors in-browser.

SmolCSS: Tiny modern CSS solutions to old web problems.

CSS Style Switcher: This is the code I use for my site's color scheme switcher.

Color Theme Switcher: Coding a theme switcher in 11ty.

Cowboy Frank: A gay cowboy's personal page that's been up since 1998.

eunoiaMelo's personal site. She runs the Superlove fic archive and selfhosts a bunch of other stuff!

Poppy Z. Brite: Homepage of author P z. B dating from 2000 til now. “Martin is best known for writing gothic and horror novels and short stories… featuring gay men as main characters, graphic sexual descriptions, and an often wry treatment of gruesome events. ”

Paloma Kop: “Paloma Kop is an experimental multimedia artist and creative technologist currently based in New Haven, CT. ”

Popagandhi: “long form essays, photos, recipes and other interests by adrianna tan”

Kohi & Andie: “TWO ARTISTS MAKING ART OF WHAT WE LOVE & SAVING CATS! ”

R U AN ARTIST ON SOCIAL MEDIA???: Article about moving away from socmed as an artist for your sanity.

Geowayne: Commentary on every single Pet Shop Boys song, written by one of the game designers for Oregon Trail. An incredible shrine to one man's favorite band, with timeless web design from 2001.

Eminism.org: A beautifully organized personal website dating back to 2000, containing the author's essays and resources on civil rights.

Final Boss Blues: Pixel art by Jason Perry - his tutorials are very helpful (especially this article about walk cycles), and his resources are cool!

Playmoar: A fun personal site with art, software and site recs, and a nostalgic design.

pseweb: The art site of illustrator + character designer Range Murata. Great, clean 2000's design. If you click on his gallery pages, beware of lolicon art!

Type Design Resources: A growing, public, collaborative collection of type design resources. Everything from learning the basics to running your own foundry.

Google Fonts: Free fonts.

Typodermic Fonts: Lots of professional fonts for free. You may recognize some, like Monofonto, being used in popular media like New Vegas.

Cava's Pixel Resources: Pixel fonts rebuilt from retro games.

VTF: Velvetyne — libre & open source type foundry. I love the font “blocus” :)

Tunera Type Foundry: More open source fonts!

UNCUT.wtf: A free typeface catalogue, focusing on somewhat contemporary type.

PHOENIX: Michael Biehn Archive: “This FAN site houses fiction and other works for the many different characters portrayed in films and on television by the actor MICHAEL BIEHN so please COME ON IN and take a look around.”

The Combahee River Collective Statement (1977): A historical Black and lesbian document. People still argue online about the same things!

Cancelled Resources: Advice and tools for artists who have suffered online harassment.

Paws and Purrs Rescue: “paws & purrs is a 501©3 non-profit rescue based in san antonio, tx. all proceeds from our shop, donations, & more go to ensuring we can continue to save cats & kittens.”

Friends of Feral Felines: “FFF is an all volunteer run nonprofit 501©(3) organization located in Charlotte, NC … We offer spay/neuter subsidies and financial assistance for injury/illness and crisis care of community cats. ”

Alley Cat Feral Friends Network: A list of local resources for stray cats spay/neutering, transportation, etc, catered to your US state, which you can get via email.

Pokemon Showdown: Pokemon PvP. I was addicted to the random battles in high school.

Choose your favorite pokemon: and make them into a graphic together!

Squirdle: Guess that pokemon game!

Wobblepaint: A pixel drawing program that automatically boils the frame into a wiggly animation.

CommaFeed: A minimal online RSS reader that intentionally shaves all the bloat.

Clip.cafe: Clip.Cafe is a database for movie and TV show quotes. Search a dialogue line, find a video clip.

Squoosh: A browser tool to compress images. Smaller images are faster to load, and you should be compressing your art so people don't just steal the high resolution piece. I like to compress my art under 500kb.

Google Photos Delete Tool: Because google doesn't allow you to delete everything at once, you'll need a script like this to automatically scroll the page and select the photos to delete.

Habitica: To-do lists in the format of an rpg game. May help with those of us Attention Deficit folks who need to see numbers go up to finish tasks.

Open source, experimental, and tiny tools roundup: What it says on the tin! Tools for everything from art, to coding, to game dev.

Archives

Short Skirt Defence: Hardy Boyz fanfiction site. An interesting snapshot of early 2000's wrestling fandom at the time, which included gratuitous RPF incest.

Wrestlefic: Archive of early 2000's wrestling fic. Includes cast of characters (wrestlers), fic terms, and HTML tutorials. Another great snapshot of fan feelings at the time.

Two Into One: Another wrestling fic archive.

The Cypress Club: Fic archive for a friend group's wrestling AU - full of snuff, violence, and other horrible things. IN KAYFABE!!!