Links for Websites

Here are my favourite resources for making neocities websites with!

I've made this list for myself mostly, because it's easier to check a site with a nice layout than delve into my bookmarks.

My Tutorials

My Layouts

Basic, utilitarian code

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My Code

  • Time Wallpaper - add a day/night cycle to your website
  • Gradient Maker - make a custom gradient pattern for cross stitch, knitting, crochet etc.

Layouts

My CSS skills are a work in progress; I much prefer editing a layout someone else has pre-made. Which is the traditional way of doing it, retro kids. If you right-click, View Source you can see the HTML code of a website to check out features you might like to copy for your own site. Back in the day, the best layout-makers would have a list of rules as long as your arm, so check what creators are OK with. But basically, starting with someone else's stuff and tinkering with it for your own is the best way to learn!

  • Eggramen - simple, clear, my perfect kind of layouts, lovely for text, really good for editing
  • Tentacool's Directory - great selection of layouts, plus coding help, simple-yet-timeless
  • Repth - nostalgia-inducing for the 00s, but still quite clean and elegant layouts from a neocities user
  • List of layout sites for neopets petsites!
  • Erik Houdini
  • Lovely Designs - very old-school 00s layouts, sorted by div/table/iframe as you prefer
  • Sadgrl's layout builder - for laying out a basic grid of boxes to get started with
  • AlmostSweet - couple of tumblr/LJ-looking layouts
  • 102 Patterns - little code snippets in pure CSS, in a modern style
  • StyleStage and CSS Zen Garden - showcases for CSS layouts.
  • CSS Challenges - Codepen has a set of challenge codes, in this case teaching CSS concepts.
  • Templatesss - Neocities with some fun static page layouts
  • Tess Is A Mess - Insanejournal with a selection of html layouts for RP games, some intense skill here
  • Within My World - small collection of html layouts
  • Neat CSS - a teeny tiny set of css rules to make websites that look nice, classic and basic

Snippets

Accessibility

Fonts

Backgrounds

My layout doesn't work correctly unless I have included a long line of arbitrary text in each box

Art

Cool Web Culture Stuff

Tutorials