Web Dev Resources

Never thought I would be dedicated enough to my site to make one of these, but here we are.

32-bit Cafe has a massive resource list that has more than enough for someone starting out. But for personal use, might as well list the ones that I have or will use.

Graphics

General

Tiled Backgrounds

Gifs, Buttons, Icons, Favicons, Emoticons, and more

Melon's Pixel Sea - 32x32 icons, 88x31 buttons.
Melon's MoMG - GIF collection.
GifCities - GIF collection by the Internet Archive.
YourSmileys.org - Huge collection of classic BBS board-type smileys, and other retro graphics like glitter gifs, icons, and more!
Something Awful Smilies - If regular smilies are too vanilla.
RealWorld Graphics - Cursors, Icons, and more.

Sprites

The Spriters Resource

Tools, Engines, Widgets

Widgets

Likhoblog - Formerly Likho's microblog.py, cool microblog generator tool for personal use. Requires python and other stuff, but simple enough to use as a noob with some guidance. This page provides additional details on how to use it aside from the readme.
Tamanotchi - Virtual pet.
GIFYPET - Virtual pet, customizable.
imood - Display your current mood.

Tools

EZgif.com - Browser-based tool for editing gifs, images, even videos to an extent. Useful for image compression, optimization, conversion, and more.
The Spriters Toolkit - Browser-based tool for basic sprite editing.

Static Page Generators (SSGs)

Not really sure if SSG is the right term to describe all of these lol

atabook - Guestbook, customizable.
Status Cafe - Microblog, very reminiscent of Twitter, customizable!
Piclog - Microblog for very heavily compressed images (mmmm, deep fried). Source code available so you can host it yourself.

HTML/CSS Templates

Reading List

Website ideas by 32bit Cafe
About Ideas Now Manifesto
Keep a Changelog - What, why, and how to keep a changelog
A Complete Rejection of Static Site Generators, Traditionally Organized Blogs with Tags and Categories, Pipelines, and Basically the Universe Blogosphere as We Know it by neonaut

Browsing

About Ideas Now - Cool indie web search engine based on about pages.

Studying

W3 Schools - One of the OGs. Easy to understand and with examples. But some tutorials are a outdated.
MDN Web Docs - Apparently, learning to read use MDN is essential for learning how to code, but holy shit I can barely understand it at my current level.
The Odin Project