Links out
Neocities sites I like
Elsewhere on the web
Webmastery
| VS Code | The software I use to code this! |
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| MDN Web Docs | Thorough & up to date guides on HTML/CSS |
| CSS Tricks | Really good visual guides for CSS |
| Box shadow CSS Generator | Visual tool for using box shadow, I struggled to understand it for a while so this really helped me learn |
| CSS Background Patterns | Generates simple background patterns in CSS, can also be saved as images |
| 99% Invisible: The Lost Cities of Geo Redux | Podcast episode - a brief history of geocities, the wayback machine, and the ways we function online. |
Fonts
| Velvetyne Type Foundry | Free & open source fonts |
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| 04 Bitmap Fonts | Free tiny pixel fonts for non-commercial use |
| Fonts by Dieter Steffmann | Hundreds of free fonts by typographer Dieter Steffman. “Since I consider fonts to be cultural heritage, I do not agree with their commercialization.” |
Art and Writing
| Dither me this | Image ditherer |
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| Paint.net | Free/simple image editing software that I use for photo editing and pixel art, loads of community pluggins. This is the pluggin I use for making cursor files! |
| Line of Action | Customisable figure drawing sessions |
| Artist Resource Links | Huge google sheets collection of artist resources |
| Emily Short's Interactive Fiction | Blog about interactive fiction writing |
| Brandon Sanderson Creative Writing Lectures | Youtube upload of Brandon Sanderson's 2020 Creative Writing Lectures at BYU |
Misc
| VHSearch | Search within Neocities - I use this pretty often |
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| Winamp Skin Museum | Archive of old Winamp skins, cool and inspiring |
| Board Game Arena | Play boardgames online with friends! |
| Ian's Shoelace Site | All about shoelaces, with 100+ walkthroughs on different lacing styles |
| The Old Robots Web Site | Huge archive of robots produced from the 1940s-2000s. Charming design and really extensive! |
| CARI | Categorised database of consumer aesthetics |
| Transparent Stickers | Tumblr blog - archive of vintage stickers |
| Condiment Packet Gallery | 'A historical archive of flexible portion control sauce packets' |
| Evolution of the Scrollbar | Interactive gallery of scrollbars |
| H.O.R.G. | Group dedicated to creating a taxonomy of bread clips - or 'Holotypic Occlupanids' |
| The Deep Sea | Scrolling descent into the ocean, with images of creatures found at those depths. |