other sites
link me if you'd like!
and/or check out these cool sites of friends and mutuals and strangers!
bennizone | ren strapp | en nelson correia | lambylune | jadelftpeters
website resources
getting started
- HTML cheat sheet: all your simple basics in one place
- W3 Schools: tutorials and codes for anything and everything
- sadgirl.online beginner's guide to Neocities: absolute square one guide
- 32bit Cafe - Website Ideas: lengthy list of page ideas for inspiration and starting points, as well as links to additional resources
- realtimehtml.com: my favourite in-browser HTML/CSS live editor
- Guide for 88x31 Button Making with GIMP: first button making guide I ever found and just never bothered to look for another. *Used this for all my buttons!
- hekate2 Buttom Maker: or use this browser-based button maker for something simpler.
code pre-mades & snippets
- eggramen CSS test pages: huge range of premades. *I used Fake WP 2 as my starting point for most pages on this site!
- Matthew James Taylor Layouts: great responsive array of simple layout building blocks. *I used the "3 column layout" for my playlist page! then deleted all the mobile friendly coding for some reason.
- W3School image grid: easy responsive image grid. *I used this for my photos & images pages.
- Kaylee Rowena art portfolio premade: this premade saved my life. best premade portfolio template I've ever come across. *I used this for my art and comic pages!
images & decor
- Public Domain Image Archive: free use images collections!
- Artvee: ranged art collection
- snailspng: tons of transparent pngs, made transparent by the blog owner and sourced in descriptions
- Under Construction Images: huge compilation of old Under Construction images/gifs
- Various oldweb style graphic compilation tumblrs:
inspiration
- Web Design Museum: categorized collections of website design
reading
essays
- stupid little phone <3: i wrote this on... you guessed it... my phone
- we have always lived in the palace: I need to take you on a very important journey. We’re going through time, back to the summer of 2005.
articles
- Céline Sciamma’s Quest for a New, Feminist Grammar of Cinema: In subtle, unpredictable ways, the French director is determined to move beyond received ideas of filmmaking.
- Riverdale Cast Exit Interview: Riverdale began as a dark spin on Archie Comics. It’s ending as one of the weirdest teen soaps ever made.
- Who Is Still Inside the Metaverse?: Searching for friends in Mark Zuckerberg’s deserted fantasyland.
interesting Wikipedia pages
- Bookland: A fictitious country that exists for cataloguing certain books by ISBN.
- Fermi Paradox: Theories for lack of contact with extraterrestrial life
- List of Unusual Deaths: what it says on the tin.
videos I like
essays & analysis
*I also just generally highly recommend all the channels listed in this category
- The Kronk Effect by CJ the X
- The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy by Jenny Nicholson
- Twilight by Contrapoints
- The Ultimate Degrassi Video by Jane Mulcahy
- Beast Games: An Autopsy by Big Joel
- a normal creepypasta retrospective by hazel
- Why Did We Like Elfen Lied? by hazel
- Disney Channel's Theme: A History Mystery by Defunctland
- Why the Music in Les Misérables (2012) is Worse than you Thought by Sideways
- Death, Grief, and The Internet by Ro Ramdin
- Animorphs: The Grey Morality of 90s YA's Most Tragic Characters by Lord Ravenscraft
summaries & reports
- The Weird & Dirty Social Experiment - The Acali Raft
by Wendigoon - The Rise and Fall of Disney's Greatest Anime by Keyan Carlile
- Six Sad SCPs
by Jeffiot. - Gay Frogs: A Deep Dive by Oki's Weird Stories
- The Jeremy Renner App
by Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez
animation
- time capsule by mean velvet
- SLASH - Stacy's Dad - Ramses/Hercules
- The Five Giants [COMPLETE Warriors M.A.P.} arranged by Whiskermoon
- Most Popular Girls in School Episode 1 Remastered by TMPG. does anyone else remember this series. well it actually ran for like 8 years and ended up with crazy good animation quality by the end, as showcased in their remake of ep1. I just think that's neat.
comedy
- Taylor Swift: Rainbow Dress skit by Montessori Boy
- she's a bad seed on this earth
- 5 Bars. 5 Seconds.
- Sick Jan by Chris Fleming
Jake and Amir picks - New Voice | Trust Fall 2 | Doobs | Cereal | more to be added
Pretty Much It picks
misc
- The Three Kittens
- Ask a Mortician: Not one single vid rec but pretty much everything on this channel is interesting and informative on the topic of death education!
- Musora Cover Series: artists of various genres have to work out a cover for an existing song in one session. all of these blow my mind one way or another.
- AntsCanada: really fun insect/animal channel. highly dramatized weekly updates about some guy's enormous vivarium collection
- The Mouth Experience mashups by Neil Cicierega, compilation and notes by piscaso
misc reference
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