All Things Small Web

Welcome to smallweb, a place on DW to discuss all things smallweb.

What is the smallweb/small web? It's people, not companies, and individual websites and small services. It's connections without algorithms and can be informative, quirky, cool, or just there.

If you have a Neocities site, a fediverse account, or, uh, a Dreamwidth journal, congrats, you're already doing the small web thing.

This community is for chatting about small web stuff, showing off websites/personal archives/fan shrines/projects, etc. It might not always be lively, but maybe every now and then we'll bust out the vintage gifs.


1. Don't be a jerk. This should be self-explanatory. If someone is being a jerk in the comments, kindly let me know.

2. Please only offer appropriate advice. The community is open to everyone regardless of experience or skill level. (e.g. a post about HTML on Neocities. Yes: Here are some simple HTML resources! No: You'd be better off running your own server in your basement and also moving to geminispace.)

3. Label your links and note the contents. This applies both to resources and your own projects. This does not need to be a long list; please just let people know what they're clicking on, especially if there is explicit/18+ content.



Cool Links:
(please leave a comment if any of the Cool Links have broken. Please also leave a link if you've found new Cool Links to share. These are all community sourced!)
fancoded
How To Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive, In Just 10 Easy Steps by melannen
HTML for People - beginner's guide to HTML
Fannish Website Making Resources - phenomenal list of resources
Deploy to Neocities (guide is SFW, greater site is NSFW/gore)
WebAIM's Contrast Checker and Link Contrast Checker
Quick tutorial by Kalechips to give a light mode and a dark mode to your website with only CSS (You need to know how to use CSS variables for that, but there's a link in the tutorial to explain how it works.)
Webzine 01 - "When a friend is interested in learning HTML, I often recommend that, for their first steps, they read Web Zine 01 by Zach Mandeville. It only covers the very basics, but it does so in a way that is 0% intimidating, while still bringing up things like semantics, accessibility, and standards compliance. Even though there's only one issue, I think it's good for people to have that foundation of "I'm just trying to help the computer understand what I'm trying to say, and the computer's trying its best to understand.""
Solaria has a CSS tidbits page
W3Schools has a lot of stuff for HTML and CSS.
Lettuce has a page with a bunch of resources.