resources for site making (all free)

• Internet Fundamentals course | Learn how the internet works
• Frontend Masters | Online bootcamp to learn webdev HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Interneting Is Hard | Web Development Tutorials For Complete Beginners
• sadgrl.online | Archived Site of Helpful Resources for Website Creation
• Dash | Learn to code HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• The Odin Project | Foundations
• HTML Dog | HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Tutorials, References, and Articles
• Home and Learn | Free Beginners Computer Tutorials and Lessons
• Tiny Tools | Open source, experimental
• Brackets | A modern, open source code editor that understands web design.
• Phoenix Code | Code creatively: Visual editing tailored for developers
• Free Code Camp | Learn to Code — For Free — Coding Courses for Busy People
• MDN Web Docs | Resources for Developers, by Developers

more resources

• Leprd | "A small free web hosting service launched in November 2016, specifically aimed towards hobby websites! We want to provide an online presence to people who just want to have fun."
• Useful Shortcuts | ALT Codes / Alt Key Codes
• POTI-board EVO official website | php script for PaintBBS | PaintBBS | shi-Painter | ChickenPaint (live example on cinni.net)

notes

• Firefox does not read nested css and will make your site look like pure html

search for personal/non-commercial sites

• Marginalia | "A search engine designed to help you find some things you didn’t even know you were looking for. If you are looking for facts you can trust, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track."
• Wiby | "In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. ... The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet."
• Old'aVista | "Our index is formed by pages scraped from the Internet Archive."
• AniLinks | "A new directory for anime, manga, video games and other Japanese pop-culture links."

nonna advice [in response to someone asking if it was possible to make neocities private so she could store private stuff on there]:

• Just get a free domain.
• https://www.infinityfree.com
• https://www.wix.com/free/web-hosting
• https://www.freehosting.com/
• https://www.000webhost.com/
• I used infinityfree for a few months, then I bought a .com domain. It was only 6€ per year when it was on sale. Normally it's 12€. You could get a ccTLD instead, they're cheaper. Be cautious, if your account is inactive it will be deleted.
• Some other alternative sites are Netlify, Surge, GitHub etc. Neocities is awful and the only reason it's popular is because of the social features and the "nostalgia", whatever that means. Don't bother with such things if you want to make something professional. It's like trying to make a videogame using Scratch…
• If you're worried about privacy, in Neocities all pages are findable via sitemap, so you have none. That's the thing with most static websites. Why don't you download Notepad++ and code something in there, then save it as html and send the file to specific people? And if you're planning to host any videos or images, save them on cloud or drive