linklog #003

my enthusiasm for the web has been reignited by the return of my favorite online event, weird web october!

Weird Web October

A challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day

you can find all of my weirdwebpages on my site, and you can follow everyone's pages with this handy RSS feed (powered by the octothorpe protocol , which recently celebrated its first stable release )

last year, we collectively made ~260 fun little webpages for you to visit. this year, I hope you make a fun little webpage, especially if you've never tried it before

as I prepare for october, I'm thinking about the tools and toys and resources that inspire me to create on/with/for the web. here are a few that I've been into lately:

interactivity

playhtml

interactive, collaborative html elements with a single attribute

speak.js demo

This is a demo of speak, a small library for making text appear as if spoken.

collectibles.js - Maximillian Laumeister

Javascript library for hiding cryptographic items across your website!

style

broider

Broider is a fun tool for designing border decorations!

Dithermark

An interactive, in-browser exploration of image dithering and color quantization algorithms

Repeater: For all your tiled background image cropping needs.

Make repeating image patterns easily by viewing the tiled result as you crop, so you can spot where to adjust the dimensions.

game/world/multimedia engines

bitsy

welcome to the world of bitsy!

wareware

wareware is our block-based 3D game toolkit. build your dream game and finally get on with your life━☆ﾟ.*･｡ﾟ

Decker

A multimedia sketchbook

DOLLMAKING

easy to use drag and drop dollmaker

flickguy: make a guy

you are remixing a flickguy in an editor that is cloned from the original and may be out of date

mooooooore toooooools

Tiny Tools Directory

A list of small, free, or experimental tools towards joyful digital creation.

Resources List for the Personal Web

Welcome to the 32-Bit Cafe Resources list! This list is to help guide and help those who are in every stage of their web-building journey on the personal web. This list is not meant to overwhelm you, but rather give you options and find tools, graphics, utilities, codes, and everything in between to help get you creating more on the independent web. Search on this page with Ctrl+F to find what you’re looking for. We try to focus our findings on free or low-cost, open-source, independent servi...

"wait how do I make a website"

squarespace ads will try to convince you that it's very complicated and expensive to make a website, but don't let them fool you. writing HTML is more straightforward than it seems, and there are lots of good options for free web hosting. start with simple pages! if you're new to this, here's a solid guide:

Zero to internet: your first website

Build an extremely simple webpage from scratch using Notepad and put it on the web with Neocities.

remember to make a silly one, okay?

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