The Cozy Cat

Resources Archive

My Resources: Terms & Conditions

All of my graphics on this page are free-to-use, so long as you provide credit or share my website. Credit should be somewhere that can be seen on your own website so others can find and also benefit from this resource archive. If you have a specific credit page, linking this page there would work fine. Alternatively if you have a button wall on your website, sharing my button there is also acceptable.


Lastly, you are not to share or claim any of these graphics as your own. They are not to be sold or redistributed in any way. If you’d like to share these graphics with others, please refer people to this page.

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Other Resources

Below is a collection of useful resources from others across the web and small web to help you build your website. Take a browse!

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Web Mastery

Web mastery refers to the skill and expertise in managing, designing, and optimizing websites. In simple terms, a webmaster is like a caretaker for a website, making sure it looks good, works well, and serves its purpose effectively on the internet.

The following websites are great informative resources to help you dip your toes into becoming your own webmaster!

    • LandChad.Net
      A site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords by showing them how to setup websites, email servers, chat servers and everything in between.
    • sadgrl.online
      This page links together various resources to help you build your own space on the web.

Accessibility

Accessibility in the context of websites refers to designing and building websites in a way that makes them usable and understandable by as many people as possible, including those with disabilities. The goal is to ensure that all individuals, regardless of their abilities or disabilities, can access and interact with the content on the web. Making your website accessible means making it welcoming and usable for everyone, and it’s essential for creating a more user-friendly online experience.

If you’d like to learn how to make your website more accessible, check out the resources below!

    • Accessible Net
      Pinkvampyr hosts an impressive collection of resources in their Accessible Net Directory. This is a great starting point to learn more about web accessibility and how to start implementing it on your website.
    • Accessibility Testing Tool
      ANDI (Accessible Name & Description Inspector) is a free accessibility testing tool. It provides automated detection of accessibility issues, reveal what a screen reader should say for interactive elements, and give practical suggestions to improve accessibility and check 508 compliance.

Widgets

    • Status.Cafe
      Status Cafe is a micro blog that you can embed on your website. If you know how to use RSS/Atom feeds, Status Cafe uses Atom so you can follow your favorite feeds, and others can subscribe to yours as well.
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    • iMood
      A simple mood widget you can embed on your website to share with others how you are feeling.
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    • WebNeko
      A cute cat widget that chases your cursor around your web page.
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    • Microblog
      A script you can use on a web page to create your own microblog that is RSS reader compatible.
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    • MF2FM
      Fun Javascript and DHTML effects for your page. Give your page some extra pizazz!

Graphics

  • StarlightMKS (archived)
    Mixed free-to-use resources: backgrounds, banners, glitter text, dolls, etc.

  • DollieCrave (archived)
    Mixed free-to-use resources: quotes, tumblr themes, cursors, backgrounds, and graphics.

  • CommentsLive 
    Free-to-use backgrounds, graphics, and image generators.

  • Glitter Graphics
    Free-to-use backgrounds, blinkies, dolls, dividers, gifs, and various other graphics.

  • Simple-Repeat 
    Free-to-use repeatable background patterns.

  • CuteKawaiiResources
    Free-to-use icons, emoticons, wallpapers, and other graphics.

  • Tenshiikisu 
    Collection of 500+ free-to-use backgrounds.

  • EasyDoll (archived) 
    Free-to-use backgrounds, dividers, blinkies, doll makers, and other graphics. Also has some useful tutorials.

  • Beetlecraft Freebies 
    Free-to-use background tiles and other graphics.

  • Lukovrurshldr 
    Free-to-use backgrounds, blinkies, avatars, button templates, and other graphics.

  • Cute Web Graphics 
    Free-to-use mini backgrounds. Many other free-to-use graphic resources planned as well.

  • Sadgrl BG Tiles
    Free-to-use tile backgrounds.

  • Glitter Groovy
    Large collection of free-to-use glitter graphics, blinkies, and gifs.

Gifs

  • GifCities 
    GifCities is a special project of the Internet Archive to celebrate 20 years of preserving the web.

  • Gif Neconomicon 
    A spooky collection of gifs. Great for Halloween!

  • CoolGifs 
    A scrolling page of gifs. Save your favorites before they float away!

  • Cute Gif 
    A collection of cute gifs in various categories.

  • GIPHY
    The content on GIPHY’s website, app, and API is all of the best and most popular GIFs on the web, along with content created by talented GIF artists and world-class brands. Includes a Gif search to help you find what you’re looking for.
     
  • Momg 
    A collection of gifs displayed to look like an art gallery. As of the time of this writing, Momg currently houses 99,969 gifs in their collection.

  • 99 Gif Shop
    An online catalogue of gifs designed to mimic a web store. It hosts a fairly large collection of gifs.

  • PicGifs 
    PicGifs hosts a large collection of gifs, wallpapers, avatars, and other graphics. It also includes a search to help you find what you’re looking for.

  • Blingee
    A free online photo editor known for helping people make fun animated graphics.

Image Tools

Doll Makers

Stamps, Buttons, & Blinkies

Emojis, Emoticons, ETC

Small Web Search Engines

Many of us in this movement are over Google. Google has a lot of privacy invasive practices and monopolizes off of private user data. And truth be told, most of our sites in the Web Revival movement are probably deeply buried in Google’s algorithms anyways. Below you’ll find independent search engines designed to help you discover others in the Web Revival movement.

  • Wiby
    The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as pages indexed are more suitable for their performance.

  • Marginalia
    Marginalia is a niche search tool focused on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren’t aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Marginalia also features a neat website explorer where you can randomly discover other websites that are part of the Small Web.

  • Search My Site
    Search My Site is a niche search, focusing on the “indie web” or “small web” or “digital gardens“, i.e. non-commercial content, primarily personal and independent websites.

Webrings

A webring is a chain of websites connected to each other that loop together. As you navigate between the websites of a webring, eventually you will get to the end of the chain and end up right back where you started. Webrings are a great way to discover other folks who are part of the Web Revival movement, as well as gain traffic to your own website.

For an up-to-date list of webrings, check out Brisray’s Webring List here.

My Webrings

    • The Book Ring
      Welcome to The Book Ring; your cozy bookish community on the small web for bibliophiles everywhere! Join us and be part of a growing community of book bloggers, readers, writers, and authors! Whether you read books, write books, or enjoy some good fanfiction, you are welcome here. 
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    • Free Speech Webring
      This webring is dedicated to everyone who supports free speech. We come from all walks of life and believe everyone deserves a voice, even the unpopular opinions!
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Create Your Own Webring

Feel like hosting your own webring? Here are some great resources to help you get started!

Directories

Many webrings have their own members directory, but not every directory has a webring. Standalone website directories are another great way to discover cool websites, gain traffic to your website, and easily find people in the Web Revival movement with similar interests.

HTML & CSS Help

  • InternetingIsHard
    Friendly web development tutorials for complete beginners.

  • Funky Chickens
    Outdated HTML code examples. Most still useful and working, great reference for newbies if you’re not looking to get too serious into code and need something quick.

  • W3 Schools
    Learn HTML, CSS, and a bunch of other coding languages for free.

  • Image-Map
    An imagemap is a graphic image where a user can click on different parts of the image and be directed to different destinations. This is an imagemap generator so you can make these quickly and easily.

  • HTML Character Encoder
    Encode text with accents and special characters into HTML character entities for use in a web page. If you create multilingual websites then this can be a super helpful tool for encoding the languages in HTML.

  • Userbox Maker
    Userboxes are boxes that contain a bit of information about someone – sort of like a miniature bio. They originated from Wikipedia and were meant for user pages. You can make your own user box and put it on your website using this generator.

  • Flexbox Guide
    Flexbox, or the Flexible Box Layout, is a layout model in CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) designed to make it easier to design complex layouts in a more efficient and predictable way. See this guide to learn more.

  • Templaterr
    Navigation tools and simple layouts for starting out with Neocities or similar static html builders.

  • EGGRAMEN CSS Testpages
    Free-to-use templates for your website.

  • LayoutIt (CSS Grid Generator)
    Useful tool to help you make your own layouts with css.

Adoptables

Adoptables are fun little digital pets that evolve when people click on them. They are fun additions to add to your website. I will update this list as I find more, so if you like interactive adoptable pets, be sure to bookmark this page and check back again later!