Website Resources and Tools
It's dangerous to go alone... take these!
Last updated: 30 May 2022A collection of resources to help you build and maintain your own website.
Accessibility 
A tool that scans your website and points out poor color contrast that could make your text difficult to read
An informative guide about web accessibility
Guide to make your site responsive
A guide I created on making responsive sites
A tool that will scan any website and give suggestions about how to make it accessible
A huge list of tools that assist in helping create accessible websites
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
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
A blog with various HTML/CSS and Neocities-specific tutorials
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
Some layouts I made, free to use.
Huge collection of layouts, not all work with Neocities sites (e.g., are LJ themes, etc.)
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
Classic 00s 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
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
Optimization
This generally means cleaning up your code, making your site load faster, and improving your website
CSS formatter
This tool will scan your website and tell you if it finds broken links. Some false positives but they are pretty obvious.
This site will scan your website's performance (how fast it loads, etc)
Minify your JS and CSS code to make your website load more quickly
This tool scans your site and "cleans" your CSS by removing unused code and condensing existing code. Using the new code also lightens the size of the CSS file
This tool scans a website to ensure it's following HTML validation standards
This tool scans a website to ensure it's following CSS validation standards
Estimate your website's carbon footprint
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