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Welcome to the 32-Bit Cafe Resources list! This list is to help guide and help those who are in every stage of their web-building journey on the personal web. This list is not meant to overwhelm you, but rather give you options and find tools, graphics, utilities, codes, and everything in between to help get you creating more on the independent web.
Search on this page with Ctrl+F to find what you’re looking for.
We try to focus our findings on free or low-cost, open-source, independent services, tools, and platforms, although we recommend financially supporting the tools you do use.
Feel free to share this list and get the word out about how easy and fun it is to create your own website and join in this side of the web!
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Webmastery
“Webmastery” and “webweaving” are cool ways to describe web development from a hobbyist standpoint, so we like to use it here. The resources below are meant to be helpful to create your own website.
Accessibility
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Beginner HTML and CSS Guides
Beginner Javascript Guides
Beginner Self-Managing & Server Guides
Free Blogging Platforms, Engines & Static-Site Generators
- Aurora, SSG created by @capjamesg
- Bear Blog, a blogging platform
- Bloggable, blogging platform for any Neocities site (including free accounts!) by @april
- Chyrp Lite, a PHP blogging engine similar to Tumblr
- Dreamwidth, an open-source LiveJournal alternative
- Eleventy, SSG
- Faircamp, Bandcamp platform alternative
- Gatsby, SSG
- HamsterCMS, content management system by @downgrade
- Hugo, SSG
- Jekyll, SSG
- Likho’s microblog.py, microblog generator created by @likho
- Mataroa, a blogging platform
- Melonking’s Gallery Maker, an application that lets you easily create HTML photo galleries
- Midnight.pub, a blogging platform created by m15o
- Pagecord, an easy and minimalist blogging platform by @olly
- Phantomake, SSG created by Osmose
- Pika, a blogging platform similar to BearBlog
- Publii, a beginner-friendly, open-source, all-in-one WordPress alternative
- Simple page builder app, a WYSIWYG editor to export code and upload elsewhere
- Smol.pub, a blogging platform created by m15o
- Soupault, an SSG that doesn’t need templates or front matter
- Statamic, an independent blogging engine similar to WordPress
- Write.as, a minimalist blogging platform
- Write Freely, an open-source simple blogging platform
- Zola, a single-binary SSG
- Zonelets, a blogging engine made for Neocities but can be used everywhere
- Zoner, a drag-and-drop SSG based on Zonelets
Code Generators
CSS Code Generators
Code Snippets
- 30 Seconds of Code’s CSS Snippets
- 33 CSS Radio Examples, copy & paste radio stylings
- 57 CSS Shapes Examples, copy & paste CSS shapes
- 65 CSS Checkbox Examples, copy & paste checkbox stylings
- 92 CSS Button Examples, copy & paste button stylings
- 95 CSS Drop Shadow Examples, copy & paste box shadow stylings
- Bechnokid’s resources, tutorials, and code snippets
- collectibles.js, hide collectibles across your website
- Dynamic Drive: JS & CSS Scripts
- Dantendo DSi Tabs
- Filter divs using JS
- FreeFrontend, over 10,000 code snippets
- Font Selector Code, made by @punkwasp
- Kalechips’ code snippets
- Loveberry
- PageCrypt, password protect a page
- Updating SideBar
- Updating Top Nav Bar
- Retro CSS Frameworks for vintage website styling
- RV’s free Javascript/DHTML effects
- Script to make your site rainbow-coloured on keypress by @rmf
- Scripted
- Shenanigan’s Code Snippets
- SmolCSS
- Solaria’s Web Making Guides
- Wesource
Common Webmastery Issues
Counters & Analytics
Guestbooks
Hosted Forms
- Formcarry, free tier
- Formkeep, free tier
- FormSubmit
- form.taxi, free tier
- GetForm, free tier
- HeroTofu, free tier
- HeyForm, free tier
- Letterbird, free tier
- Netlify Forms, free tier
- Pageclip, free tier
- Riku Forms, created by m15o
- Smartforms, free tier
- Tally, powerful free tier
- Web3Forms, free tier
Hosted Services for Websites
Free Layouts & Themes
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Layout Makers
Text Cliques & Clubs
Staff Note: There are a lot of text cliques across the independent web and would be a bit overwhelming to include here. Instead of linking to individual text cliques, these link to collections, directories, and compilations of text cliques.
Fanlistings
Free Webhosts
- Codeberg Pages
- Geocities.club
- Github Pages
- Hot Glue, webhost & visual tool to create websites
- Ichi.city, made by m15o
- InfinityFree (free tier, 5GB, supports PHP and MySQL)
- Leprd.space (application-based, up to 5GB, supports PHP)
- Marigold Town, town-themed webhosting created by @xandra
- mmm.page (free tier, drag & drop web builder!)
- Neocities (free tier, up to 1GB)
- Nekoweb, a free and donation-tier Neocities alternative
- Netlify (generous free tier!)
- Reocities.xyz, a Neocities clone
- Slashpage
- Sourcehut Pages
- Teacake (free tier, up to 500MB, supports PHP and MySQL) [Applications closed]
- Web 1.0 Hosting, old web hosting with 100MB initially and built-in CMS, created by @downgrade
- W3Schools’ Spaces (free tier, 20MB, 500 hits per month, learn-as-you-go!)
- Yay.Boo, a super-simple, free file uploader to create a website
Paid Webhosts
(Note: It is recommended to avoid EIG Hosting companies, services and brands)
Domain Name Registrars
Creating, Managing, and Finding Webrings
Widgets & Components
X-References
Graphics
These are resources relating to graphics, graphic design, or creating art.
Browser-Based Graphic Editors
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Color Palettes
Graphic Generators
Free Graphics & Website Materials
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Pixel Cliques & Clubs
Here is an ongoing list of active pixel clubs and cliques across the web that have either been created or revived from an older age of the internet. Unsure about what this is?
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Placeholder Images
Free Stock Images & Illustrations
Utilities & Programs
These are utilities, programs, and helpful tools that can help make your life easier when it comes to computing, webmastery, and other computer-related hobbies.
Webweaving Utilities
Image & Art Utilities
Social Media Utilities
Retro Utilities & Programs
Typefaces & Fonts
- 1001 Fonts
- Beautiful Webtype, in-depth guide to the best free fonts
- Bunny Fonts
- coolLabs Fonts, a Google Fonts CDN replacement
- Font End Dev
- Fontpair, curated font pairings
- Fontspace, 130k+ free fonts
- Fontspring, worry-free fonts
- Font Squirrel
- fonts.upset.dev, a Google Fonts CDN replacement
- Free Japanese Font
- Google webfonts helper, a helper service for self-hosting Google fonts
- Humantooth’s Hosted Web Fonts
- Inclusive fonts, free or inexpensive readable fonts
- Kreative Korp Relay Fonts
- Modern Font Stacks, list of font stacks that can be rendered on different operating systems, with CSS snippets
- The Best of Creative Lettering
- The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack
- Typetester Typesetting Tool
- Urban Fonts
- Velvetyne Type Foundry
Password Managers
Other Software & Utilities
Independent Web Alternatives
These are alternative projects, web services, and replacements for the corporate web or corporate services.
Creativity Tools & Programs
Directories & Listings
Current and active directories and website listings for the small web.
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eCommerce Alternatives
Productivity Tools & Programs
Search Engines
Other Service Alternatives
Service Proxies and Frontends
- BreezeWiki, allows you to view Fandom wiki pages without the bloat or ads
- FreeTube, a privacy-focused desktop client for YouTube
- Invidious, a lighter-weight YouTube frontend
- NewPipe, an alternative mobile YouTube client for Android
- Piped, an alternative YouTube frontend
- Scribe, a Medium link alternative
Zines
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Contributors
This list is contributed to by members and some information has been grandfathered in from our Discord and other communication platforms. Thank you so much to everyone who contributes to the list. Some of these have been added from Discord and other shared spaces, so those folks have been added here. Please sign your name below if you added links to this resource!
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Contributors, cont.
Interested in contributing?
After a certain period of time and activity, you will have access to edit the list. If you’d like to get permissions sooner than that, send @yequari or @xandra a message! Add categories and links in the same format using Markdown to keep things consistent. If a resource you have in mind tends to fit into two categories, try selecting the one that best represents the intention of the resource. Try to list resources in alphabetical order for ease, but it will be periodically cleaned up anyway. Thank you for your efforts!
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gentle reminder to not reply to this post, edit the list directly to add resources! :)
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