Inspiration
Having a hard time on what your website even looks like? These should provide plenty of it
- Happy Hues, easy color inspo - link
- Siteofsites, made for this very purpose! - link
- Blue Pages, links to many other websites - link
- Web Design Museum, what it says on the tin - link
- Ytoo.org, a portal to various retro related sites - link
- Starsubculture, other people showcasing their websites - link
- Restorivland, a look at old geocities websites and the like - link
Tutorials
A bunch of things that help you do website stuff
- W3schools - link
- PetraPixel - link
- Neoskitties - link
- Sadgrl Archive - link
- Flexbox Froggy - link
- Solaria's Guides - link
- Let's Learn Eleventy - link
Tools
Stuff to help with coding, I used most of the tools here
- Sublime Text, my main code editor - link
- Webring tool list, what it says on the tin - link
- Eleventy, the SSG that I'm using right now! - link
- Petrapixel's layout builder, actively maintained - link
- CSSgradient, what I used to make all of the gradients here - link
Visuals
Colors, ASCII as well as some other stuff
- Phosphoricons, FOSS icon pack - link
- BitFontMaker, Make your own pixel fonts - link
- File Garden, file hosts with direct link - link
- Dithermark, pretty good at dithering things - link
- Ascii archive, categorized by the ASCII's theme - link
- Squoosh, used to compress or convert image files - link
- Ezgif, not just gifs! It can be other stuff as well - link
- Button Maker, idk what else to tell you, it's a button maker - link
- DaFont, free fonts that can be used for a variety of reasons - link
- Patternico, background maker, I used this a few times in the past - link
Add-Ons
Stuff you can put on your website
- Zonelets, blogging engine - link
- Chattable, have a chatbox - link
- Bloggable, iframe blogging tool - link
- Incremental Button, make number go up - link
- BaguetteBox, the lightbox gallery I use- link
- HTML Journal, blogging tool for your website - link
- Ayano's Comment Widget, used on the guestbook - link
- Scripted, a variety of code snippets for your website - link
Faux Ad Services
Ad services that advertise other indie sites, somewhat an extension of the last category
- Navlink - link
- Artlink - link
- Sidelink - link
- Nekolink - link
- Ringlink - link
- Translink- link
- Johnvertising - link
Webhosts
I haven't used most of these myself, but I've heard some good things. Maybe in the future I'll add a pros and cons list for these things