These are little, independently owned and operated websites rather like my own — or resources you can use to make your own website. You can get updates by subscribing to the Atom feed. If you have a personal website already, please tell me about it.
- yesterweb.org
- a resistance effort opposing the commercial internet’s tendency to become QVC with a comments section
- bnrmetal.com
- This is one of the oldest continually-operating websites that I personally know of; I discovered a lot of bands because of this guy.
- tdarb.org
- This is Bradley Taunt’s personal website. He’s a web designer who inveighs against the use of CSS and JavaScript. I like his style.
- motherfuckingwebsite.com
- This is a plain motherfucking website. No JavaScript. No CSS. No inline styles. No SSL.
- bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com
- This is a less plain motherfucking website. No JavaScript. No inline styles. No SSL. 7 lines of CSS.
- bestmotherfucking.website
- This is a further improvement over its predecessors, and the best according to its creator. Still no JS or inline styles, but it’s served over HTTPS and has a trendy TLD.
- wave.webaim.org
- This is the web version of WebAIM’s web accessibility evaluation tool. A woman I worked with encouraged me to use this to test the accessibility of web apps I was building at my day job, and I ended up using it on my personal websites too.
- sadgrl.online
- Sadness’ personal website. She parties like it’s 1999.
- cursors-4u.com
- This site provides a variety of cursors you can use on your website.
- totallyfreecursors.com
- Here’s another site that provides cursors for websites; they claim to be the original, but I haven’t verified that.
- tyoma.cool
- Here’s another cool-looking 1990s style website. I like the USB tail in the header graphic.
- kevq.uk
- This is Kev Quirk’s website. He’s an infosec/web design type and runs a popular Mastodon instance.
- xhtml.club
- Extreme HyperText Movement for Luddites: build websites with no JavaScript and as little CSS as you can (preferably none)
- The Website Obesity Crisis
- A transcript of Maciej Cegłowski’s talk about why it’s bad for an online news article containing 500-1000 words of text to weigh in at over two megabytes
- rubedo.work
- This is Jack Clayton’s website. He writes about
everything from practical hearth magic to fictional reconstruction and chaos magic, and from poetry to superhero fiction
. - kradeelav.com
- zines & comic art / villains & leather / what standards?
- lots of fan works related to Hellsing, Fire Emblem, and others. A lot of it is lewd, kinky, and queer.