Website Resources and Tools
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Last updated: 11 May 2022A collection of resources to help you build and maintain your own website.
Archival / Download
Archiving your site periodically is important!
Extension to allow you to download all of the images on a page
Software for Windows/Linux that will crawl and locally archive a website for you
Download entire archives of Tumblr blogs
A browser extension that will save an entire website locally as a .html file
Flair
Cute falling object codes for your site
A pet for your website
A music player that automatically loads across of your website pages
Free counter for your site
Add an interactive kitty to your webpage
Fonts
A bitmap font editor/maker in your browser.
A page with downloads for tiny bitmap fonts
Previews and downloads of free-to-use fonts
Graphics & Fonts
A web badge maker
An archive of old tiled backgrounds
Create your own blinkies
A bitmap font editor/maker in your browser.
Fake ads to use on your page
More fake ads to use on your page
Create & edit gifs
Generate word art
A keyword-searchable collection of old gifs archived from Geocities
A huge directory of pixel art websites
Generate Microsoft Office-esque word art
Create a cute pet for your webpage
A collection of internet bumper stickers
Add glitchy and retro effects to photos and gifs
Upload an image and this tool will remove the background
Make your own tiled backgrounds
88x31 button maker in your browser
Free background patterns
A collection of SVG composite patterns
A page with downloads for tiny bitmap fonts
A huge collection of web badges to display on your site
Hosting
Again, please avoid Bluehost
A list of some of the cheapest VPS hosting available
A free webserver with PHP & SQL databases, for hobbyists
Very small, cheap KVM host
HTML/CSS/JS
CSS formatter
A live editor that shows you HTML/CSS changes as you make them in real time
Visually create your layout and generate the code
CSS pre-made layout patterns
Display an RSS feed in plaintext on your website with optional styling
A handy reference sheet when using HTML
Generate the markup for lists, tables, links, images and more
Minify your JS and CSS code to make your website load more quickly
Guide to make your site responsive
A tool to create vector art (SVGs)
A collection of JavaScript effects that still work
A good beginner's guide to HTML & CSS
Paste in formatted text and generate it into HTML
Layouts
Neocities
Build a custom layout, no coding required
One of the most impressive collections I've ever seen of original free-to-use layouts
Free layouts you can copy!
Premade layouts and useful site codes
Anime / Old School
Old school anime layouts
More old school anime layouts
Old-school style anime layouts
Very mid-00s-style layouts
Modern
Other
An easy visual solution to build your own layout and export it to HTML
CSS pre-made layout patterns
Website Metrics
Get stats about your site
This site will scan your website's performance (how fast it loads, etc)
Free website analytics tool that doesn't track personal data
If you put in your URL, this will give you a list of websites that have linked to you
Sitebuilders
No-code website builders.
Highly customizable website builder that works on mobile
Drag and drop page builder
Another cool drag and drop page builder