Link Hoard

My collection of neat websites (and a few other things) that I've found during my time on the internet, all in alphanumeric order and filterable by general topic.

Please note that me linking part of a site here does NOT mean I 100% endorse everything that can be found on that site, nor can I say everything on the site is 100% accurate. Just that there was something worth sharing. Also, while all links are safe and useable (as in, not broken and not over-run with ads) as of me adding them, I can't promise they'll stay that way. If anything breaks, let me know and I'll remove it ASAP.

Lastly, I try to focus on free resources whenever possible. Should something ever not be free (as of me adding it), it will [A] be clearly marked [B] be $20 USD or less and [C] made by indie or otherwise "small" creators.

• 11ty Bundle - An ever growing collection of videos and articles made by various people on how to use 11ty.
• 11ty Rocks - A collection of Eleventy (11ty) starters, projects, plugins, and resources (description from site).
• 11ty, GitHub, and Neocities - Guide on how to use 11ty and GitHub together to make a Neocities site. 11ty helps do some heavy lifting for you, and Git handles version control and file sync between devices. Very handy.
• 32Bit Cafe - A community of website hobbists who provide a list of publicly available guides and resources.
• 5e Tools - A suite of tools for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons players and Dungeon Masters (description from site).
• 6 Minutes to Build a Blog from Scratch with Eleventy [YouTube] - An official 11ty guide posted to YouTube. I don't recommend following it step-by-step, unless you just want to make a practice site to delete afterwards, as they do skip over a lot of helpful file path/organization methods (plus a few other handy things). However, it is great for just seeing it in action before you download anything.
• 98.css - A framework/theme for making sites that look/feel like Windows 98.
• A Five-Minute Guide to Better Typography - Design choices to think about regarding text and only text. Design hard.
• ADHD Analog Brain - This tool is designed to overcome your executive dysfunction by asking you questions and leading you to a helpful answer. Yes, it's for ADHD! Yes, it's for Autism! Yes, it's for TBI! Yes, it's for ANYONE who would like help with executive function! (description from site)
• Adobe Alternatives - Collection of alternatives to adobe products. Marks which ones are open source, free, paid, and subscription with emoji.
• AdorkaStock - Huge library of pose refrences for artists. I've linked to their collection of free images in particular, but they also have paid packs if that is of interest. They also have even more poses on their DevientArt that has yet to be ported to the site. So yeah, good resource.
• Black Socialists Resource Guide - A collection of anti-state and anti-capitalism texts. They also have a Glossary of Terms.
• Blog Prompts - Gives you a random blog prompt from a list, in case you're stuck on ideas. Some are cited as coming from elsewhere, so you can check the citations to see if those give you more ideas.
• BRUT - A brutalist style CSS framework.
• Butch as a Bird [Radiant Obscurities Archive] - Essay about the intersection between alterhumanity and gender that changed my life.
• Clippy - A tool that generates CSS code to "draw" a shape for your shapely needs.
• Color Contrast Accessibility Validator - Lets you check the contrast of text color to background color in a variety of contexts, letting you know if it meets accessibility standards. You can also check the color contrast of a page on your website.
• Color Safe - A tool to help you make accessible palettes. You pick what you want your primary color to be, and it automatically finds a bunch of other colors that will have good contrast with it. Note that the color picker does not work on mobile, so you will have to already have the hex code for your base color.
• cs16 - CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI (description from site).
• CSS Tricks - Lots of guides on CSS shenanigans, covering a wide range of skill levels.
• Curlie - MASSIVE community-curated collection of websites from across the web, across several languages.
• Deck of Cards - A virtual standard deck of playing cards in your browser.
• Desmos Scientific Calculator - Free and robust calculator in your browser.
• Distro Chooser - Helps you choose a Linux distribution based on things like what you'll use it for and technical skills.
• Eggramen's CSS Test Pages - Several CSS templates that are fairly easy to edit should you feel the need.
• Feather Icons - Open source icons with a clean/minimalist look.
• Fight Fascism - Short list of resources; fairly self explanatory.
• Frog of the Month - See who the frog of the month is!
• Furward Momentum - Series on the Dhole Moments/Soatok blog meant to provide resources and guidance to get into the tech industry with little to no prior knowledge.
• Gify Pet - A virtual pet you can customize and put on your site.
• Grand Central Library Archives - Collection of links focusing on writing, role-playing, and world building.
• HTML Cheat Sheet - List of commonly used HTML elements. They also have CSS and JavaScript sheets, plus other languages.
• HTML Head - A guide on what all you can stick into the <head> element.
• Incorrect Quote Generator - Does as it says on the tin; generate totally real quotes for your favorite characters or OCs to say.
• InterACT's Brochures and InterACT's FAQ page - Educational resources on and for intersex people.
• JSTOR - Academic articles with prices ranging from cheap (in comparison to the normal cost of such articles) to free.
• Kale's Code Snippets - Some snippets, including stuff like a style switcher, CSS-only tape effect, and more.
• Krita - A free and open source downloadable (Linux/Windows/Mac/Android) art program. It's what I use and recommend B) Note the android version is a direct port, works only on tablets, and even then just barely lol.
• Learn 11ty - SUPER in-depth set of lessons going into many of the funky things 11ty can do.
• Learn to Code HTML and CSS - What is, as far as I've found, the best free guide to HTML and CSS. Also includes advanced lessons whenever you're ready for those.
• Leather Archives and Museum - An online archive on the history of leather in the queer community. Fair warning, as this is an archive on leather, do expect 18+ content to be found in the archives.
• Let's Learn Together - Linux Intro - Covers the very basics of using Linux.
• Let's Make a Zine! - A guide on how to make a zine by metaparadox. Takes the form of a downloadable PDF. Has a name your own price cost model.
• LibreOffice - A free and open source downloadable (Linux/Windows/Mac) office suite, including a writing program! Again, something I use and like, so going here.
• LibreTexts - Free and open-source college textbooks.
• Magicpattern - Tool that generates CSS parents for your various pattern usages.
• Magnet Poetry - Make magnet poetry in your browser!
• Marriage Certificate Generator - A silly little tool to create a "marriage certificate" for your favorite character. Or favorite whatever.
• MDN Docs - Mozilla's guides to CSS, HTML, and Javascript. The most information dense of all resources here, making it helpful for anyone regardless of skill level. But that also means that very complicated topics are mixed in with very simple ones. Also has some tools, such as a color picker and box-shadow generator.
• MelonLand - A collection of resources for personal web development, plus some fun stuff. Has a forum, but do know the forum closes on Monday and that there are multiple eye-straining and quickly moving elements on the various MelonLand sites.
• Metazooa - Think woordle but with animals; every time you guess an animal, you're given the closest taxonomic rank. Also has a plant edition.
• Moderating Communities is Not a Burden - Article on some basic 101's of community moderation.
• Modern CSS - Small collection of CSS tricks for specific issues people often face.
• My Fridge Food - Helps you find recipies based on what ingredients you say you have.
• My itch.io favorites - Just a collection of games I found and enjoyed.
• No Clip - A site that lets you zoom around the map of many diffrent games! Including Pikmin hehehe...
• Obsidian - Free note taking app, another tool I use. this time for fanfic writing. Their sync service is not free, but it's pretty easy to use a tool like Syncthing to sync it yourself.
• Obspogon's Mega Collection - Massive collection of various websites and resources. Most of them are on game related stuff, such as free games and game emulation.
• Open Textbook Library - Free and open-source college textbooks.
• OpenStax - Free and open-source college textbooks (and some high-school-level ones) provided for free. I've had instructors assign us books from their list, so I can strongly recommend it.
• Otherkin Wiki - This site is about otherkin, a subculture of people who consider themselves something other than human. It contains information about the culture, experiences and history of our communities and the people in them. It also covers a diversity of other related alterhuman communities (description from site).
• Palletton - Helps you make color pallates according to basic color theory rules and stuff. Very handy.
• PetraPixel Coding - Incredible resource including guides on getting started with making a website, 11ty, git, and more. Also has code snippets and a site builder tool.
• PetraPixel's Widget Workarounds - Most free-teir Neocities sites can't use some widgets, as they connect to an outside source. However, free accounts can still use iframes! Petra has some workarounds for popular widgets using iframes instead. So, while not always ideal, these can work in a pinch.
• Accounts made before July 2023 are able to use these sorts of widgets regardless of if they're free or supporter. This rule was added retroactively due to people abusing the system :c and it would suck to have a feature you were using to suddenly be put behind a paywall. So, it only applies to newer sites.
• Photopea - A free photoshop-like program that runs in your browser.
• Project Gutenberg - A collection of books that have entered the public domain, free to be download and read by anyone.
• Public Domain Image Archive - An archive of images in the public domain. Honestly, everything in here is great. Just really old and thus fits a very particular aesthetic.
• Public Domain Vectors - Vectors in the public domain. Pretty simple. Quality of the vectors isn't guaranteed, however.
• Queer Zine Archive Project - A project aiming to archive as many zines discussing queer topics as possible and encourage further creation of more queer zines. Does include some 18+ content.
• Rarebit - A site template/tool box made for webcomic hosting.
• Recipe Search - Lets you search the internet for any recipe. It will then pull the basic information you actually need (ingredients, directions, etc.) from the site for you so that you don't need to wade through tons of ads or unneeded stories.
• Sakura - A minimal, classless CSS framework / theme (description from site). Has multiple color pallette options.
• Slash Pages - A list of page ideas for your website.
• Smoll CSS - Minimal snippets for modern CSS layouts and components (description from site).
• Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits - Article on the importance of social media sites having "fire exits", or ways for people to leave the site without loosing connections. You know, something that profit driven medias will never do if not forced lol.
• Solaria's Guides - Various guides, ranging from image galleries to how to pause GIFs to accessibility 101.
• Space Bar's Bulletin Board - Random assortment of links, mostly taking the form of images, ranging from personal sites to games to services (such as search engines). >Has flashing elements!
• Strawberry Starter - A blog template for 11ty in particular; it also includes files needed for 11ty shenanigans to work.
• Syncthing - Free and open source live sync tool. No "cloud" or dedicated server needed, just two or more devices you want to have share files. I use this for fanfic writing mainly lol.
• system.css - Website framework/theme to help make sites that look like old Macintosh systems.
• The Alterhuman Archive - The Alterhuman Archive is an ever-expanding collection of nonhuman and alterhuman-related information, writings, and creations, meant to function as a community resource and memory bank (description from site).
• The Anarchist Library - An archive of anti-state and anti-capitalism texts.
• The Blinkie Hoard - A collection of "blinkies", narrow GIFs used to decorate pages. Warning: most of them flash!
• The Punctuation Guide - Grammar guide explaining how to use different forms of punctuation, such as the semicolon (;) and the ever beloved em dash (—).
• The Starship and the Temple Cat - Short story that made me cry.
• The Story of Boatmurdered - The story of a Dwarf Fortress file that was passed around many users. It went as well as you'd expect.
• Tools for Creating Ideas - Lists a ton of methods of idea generation for when you're stuck.
• Transparent Textures - A collection of transparent textures. Lets you preview the textures as backgrounds and lets you test them with any color.
• University of Victoria's Transgender Archives - A public online archive of trans history hosted by the University of Victoria.
• Unplatform - A guide to leaving modern social media in favor of the indie web.
• Vincent's Dungeon Links [Wayback Machine] - Good collection of many links, including educational stuff and webweaving stuff. Note that the site creator has marked the entire website as 18+.
• Virtual Observer's Comment Widget - Adds comments/guest books to your site using google sheets. Note: because this connects your site to an outside source, most free Neocities accounts can't use it.
• Visual Design Rules You can Safely Follow Every Time - Exactly as the title says: design choices you can always rely on.
• VSCodium - Did you know that Virtual Studio Code is an open source prorgam? Anyways, here's a version that doesn't have Microsoft's fingers all over it. Downloadable for Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
• WAVE - Standing for "Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools" is a site that lets you test and make sure that your website is acessible to those with various disabilities. Most of what they check for is fairly reasonable for a small web/indie site to implement.
• Web Badges World - A large collection of various web badges. Warning: many of them do flash quickly, though animated ones can be filtered out.
• Web Design in 4 Minutes - A crash course on the basics of web design. It goes over very little in terms of code and instead focuses on the choices you should be thinking about when deciding what your site should look like.
• Web Neko - Put a little cat on your site that will chase the mouse pointer around! Also works on mobile, it just goes where the user last tapped instead.
• Write On's Layout Generator - Generates a basic layout for your site based on your chosen options.
• Write-On's Tools - Some snippets, including a gallery and a tool to load common text (such as a header or menu) on many pages with JavaScript.
• Xaselgio's Links - Random assortment of links, all taking the form of 88x31 buttons. Includes personal sites, program recommendations, and other neat stuff. Note that some images are intentionally misleading in minor ways, usually as jokes. >Has flashing elements!
• Yesterlinks Directory [Wayback Machine] - Large directory of websites, sorted by many different tags. Has a preference for small web spaces, but otherwise has no theme.
• You Don't Need JavaScript - A large collection of code snippets that aim to recreate functions people usually use JavaScript for with just HTML/CSS.
• You Feel Like Shit - This is meant to be an interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals. It's designed to take as much of the weight off of you as possible, so each decision is very easy and doesn't require much judgment (description from site).
• You No Longer Need JavaScript - A blog post that goes over some common cases where JavaScript ends up being used where plain HTML + CSS could be used instead. The author also lightly touches on why this is helpful and on some ways to make CSS less painful.
• You've Been Truamatized Into Hating Reading (And it Makes You Easier to Oppress) - Very good article talking about how early education treats reading, how it makes us not want to read, and how the many consequences of how this make people and information easier to control.
• Zonelets - A base for coding your own blog. Includes the HTML, a few CSS files to choose from, and the JavaScript used to make it work. The tutorial is written with Neocities in mind but this should also work for other webhosts.