you arrive at the dark, rainy wetlands...the wetlands...
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The ground is moist with midnight dew, trees are bristling in whispering wind. The buzz of caged LED lights is amplified by reflections from metal. Trains rush mere metres above your head, illuminating the swamp streets for a couple of seconds at a time. The patter of rain can be heard upon corrugated iron roofs. Moonlight flails helplessly, drowning amongst brighter, more artificial competition. You turn, back and forth, side to side. There are signs everywhere, each one with a tantilising invitation.
Check out some of my favourite sites and affiliates here! Click a link button to visit in a new tab, and send me a message if you'd like to trade links.
Here's a list of some of my favourite links and online content. Have fun exploring the web!
100,000 stars - Start at the sun and zoom out to see thousands of stars and planets, as well as distances and names!
A Soft Murmur - An excellent site that lets you customise white noise/relaxing sounds to play in the background. I find this to be really good for concentration and when I'm feeling stressed and I love playing around with the combinations. Great for creating the tumblr atmosphere we all dream of (or maybe that's just me?).
Bored Button - Randomly generates interesting websites to visit for when you're bored.
Brainrot Translator - A tool that lets you rizzify any text into Omega Gooner wojak online brainrot skibidi babble.
Cachemonet - Cool trippy visuals that look awesome on screen and even better through a projector. Recommended for chill parties!
City Map Generator - Generate random maps in the style of USA 'grid' cities.
Deep Sea - Visual online representation of the different life found at different sea levels! Very relaxing and easy to get lost in.
How far away is andromeda? - This one answers the question on the tin. (Hint: it's far away but moving preeetty quickly)
Humans of New York - Documenting the lives of New York City's residents through photography and interviews. A personal favourite of mine that gives a lot of insight into a lot of interesting people.
Introspection at SEP - The entry for 'introspection' at the Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy. Contains an introduction to the philosophy of introspection.
itch.io - Marketplace of independent games, assets and much more.
Marxists Internet Archive - Super useful archive of historical and public domain leftist texts, great for studies and research on political topics and perspectives! This really came in handy when I studied my undergrad degree.
Noclip - This site generates levels from different games for you to explore them in your browser! My favourite is the Wii Sports Resort island lol what a meme.
NSTMF Gravity - A lovely game that models the effect of gravity on space objects! WARNING!! - It's easy to lose hours to this relaxing site.
OneZoom Tree of Life Explorer - This site lets you zoom in and out of an interactive tree of all life on earth, showing how species and classifications relate! Warning: slightly addictive.
Shan't we tell the vicar? - The blog/newsletter of Mara Wilson (as in Matilda, amongst other roles) - I've followed her for years on social media and I really enjoy her writing.
Smithsonian Open Access - A gem I recently discovered, the Smithsonian Museum has an open access archive where you can view/freely use some of their images!
Soft Heart Clinic - A lovely lil site that contains information on self-care, mental health themed pixel art and links to lots of cool project videos on different topics.
This Is Sand - Play with virtual sand. What's not to love?
tree.fm - Listen to soothing recordings of various forests around the world.
Unsplash: Brutalism - Unsplash is a great stock photo resource, and my particular favourite category is the brutalist architecture stuff. There are some beautiful, freely useable images of great (or hideous, if that's your view) buildings.
FileZilla - A free, open-source file transfer protocol (FTP) client, for managing your website's files over an internet connection.
G.I.M.P - a neat free Adobe Photoshop alternative that is heavily featured and made by the open source community! i use this to make stuff for this site as photoshop is expensive and a bit of a hassle for what i'm actually doing.
Inkscape - The G.I.M.P of vector graphics, Inkscape is a great piece of design software with features similar to Adobe Illustrator.
JS Paint - Use classic MS Paint right here in your browser!
Krita - Free, open-source painting programme - also includes animation functions.
LMMS - free DAW (digital audio workstation) for making beats if you don't have any of the major softwares! not as fully featured as the likes of logic & ableton but pretty close, and good if you're used to the FL interface. works with lots of plugins too.
Lunacy - More free design software built for creating UX/UI type stuff. Similar to Sketch/Adobe XD.
Moebius - A free ANSI and ASCII editor/drawing programme.
Photopea - Another photoshop clone with advanced features!
Pixlr - Photoshop-esque image editor based in your browser.
Womp 3d - Free 3D design software that works in your browser.
Here are some links to various handy resources for creating your own website. Feel free to suggest any additions, or ask me any questions you may have.
Coding:
Animasta - CSS animation effects (e.g. background gradients) to make your website pop!
Bennett Feely's CSS Resources - Lots of useful free CSS resources for your website, including image effects, gradient tricks and layout guides.
boxboxhtml - You can use this tool to generate very basic HTML & CSS layouts. This may come in handy for learning the basics of CSS positioning (i.e. determining where elements are displayed on a web page).
CodePen - A repository where developers can post snippets of code for testing (and use by others!). An excellent place to find cool new effects for your site.
Construct Your CSS - A visual layout editor for creating CSS layouts with accessible semantic HTML.
Word to HTML - Convert your text or documents into HTML code.
W3 Schools - THE place to go for comprehensive tutorials when learning CSS, HTML and more. An absolute lifesaver of a website, filled with all the information you'll ever need.
HTML Comment Box - A comments system that can be added to any HTML page - I currently use this for my guestbook page.
Kalechips' PHP Guestbook Script - A free guestbook script that can be hosted on your own website (this will only work on Neocities if you have a supporter plan).
Shoutjax - An alternative shoutbox provider (I have not tried this one).
SmartGB - Popular free guestbook host with customiseable features.
Scripts:
Eleventy - A static site generator for building sites and deploying them from your computer, using Node.js.
Hugo - A free and open-source static site generator.
Jekyll - Another static site generator, with extensive guide documents, themes and plugins available.
Next.js - A framework for building web applications that can be deployed statically to your own website/repository.
Node.js - A framework which allows you to run JavaScript code on your computer without the use of a browser. You can use it to programme entire websites/web apps just using JavaScript.
Zonelets - Very simple free JavaScript-based blog script that can be implemented on your HTML site, without the need for PhP or databases. This is really useful for static site hosts like Neocities!
Premade Website Layouts:
Unsure where to begin designing your website? Why not use a premade layout! You can also check out the themes I've made back on the homepage under "art & resources".
Almost Sweet - Free CSS and HTML layouts that can be easily customised.
Codes By Laighlin - High quality tumblr themes with a focus on accessibility and urban/neon design. Adaptable for use on static websites if you know what you're doing.
Createblog - Mostly created in the late-2000s, this site is filled with cute old-fashioned blog themes!
Egg Ramen - Nice simple CSS templates, great for learning how to position things and make certain layouts. Hugely recommend if you're getting started with site building.
Foollovers - HTML/CSS Layouts (Japanese Web Style)
Websets by Lynn - Awesome, cute early 2000s style web layouts! Great for a dose of nostalgia.
Hosting & Site Builders:
Cargo - A premium site builder used by creative professionals.
Carrd - A popular tool that allows you to build a single page website for free.
Cloudflare Pages - A platform for deploying websites from repositories - free and paid plans available.
GitHub Pages - Host web pages directly from your GitHub repository!
Hotglue - Very fun looking actual 'drag-and-drop' site-builder. Also a downloadable script if you want to upload the framework to your own server.
Hostinger - A traditional, reasonably priced hosting platform.
Ichi - A very small and simple free static site host.
InfinityFree - A service offering free and paid hosting packages. The free package includes automatic software installation (such as WordPress), although there are some reports of people's sites being suspended for having too low or heavy traffic.
Linktree - A "link in bio" tool that lets you create a free links page (useful for when you want to share all of your various links on your social media profile.
mmm.page - A simple drag & drop site builder with free and premium packages. Lots of potential to be creative without needing to learn to code!
Nekoweb - A free static website hosting service, created by and for lovers of the old web.
Neocities - A great free static host to make HTML sites with tutorials abound, founded in the ashes of 90s favourite Yahoo Geocities. There are extra features (such as custom domain use) available for a fee. It's also my lovely host!
Straw.Page - A cool free drag and drop site builder that even works on your mobile phone!
