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As a web design teacher, I spend a lot of time searching for online resources I can provide for my students. Here's a loosely-associated list of pages that I think are worth sharing. A lot of these links are borrowed from the awesome collection "The internet used to be fun" by Rachel J. Kwon.

I'm always adding to this list - if you have any recommendations, please share! There are a few specific resources that I'm looking for:

• something that introduces grid layouts from the perspective of print media
• a great, simple color pallette generator, with WCAG contrast guidelines built in
• Anything stylistic about fonts- history of notable fonts, rules for selecting appropriate fonts for different designs

Inspirational writings about personal websites

• "love letter to the personal website" by aroceu
• "I am a poem I am not software" by Robin Rendle
• "You should have a website" by Nora Reed
• "In Praise of Links" by Coyote
• "Your Website is Useless" by Kiriska
• "My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?" by Laurel Schwulst
• "The life and times of a personal website" by Rebecca Mqamelo

Inspirational writings about the small web

• "Love Letter to HTML" - Janelle Bouchard
• "Making space for a handmade web" - Chia Amisola
• "Web Of the People" - Open Indie
• tiny internets
• "We can have a different web" by Molly White
• "Manifesto for a Humane Web" by Michelle Barker
• Good Internet Magazine

Cool Articles about the physical structure of the internet

• Taking an Internet Walk
• "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson

Pushing the bounds of web publishing

• Future of Football
• The HTML Review
• soft-tech by Helena J
• LOW←TECH MAGAZINE - this website is hosted on a solar powered webserver that goes offline in bad weather

Fun Internet History

• "The Enlightenment had its own internet: The Republic of Letters"
• "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace" by John Perry Barlow
• "The Rise and Fall of Telephone Operators" - lots of cool stuff in this article, including how a worker strike among telephone operators in 1918 helped lead to women's suffrage

Web Design - Technical Resources

• omg.lol
• 11ty
• Kern Type (fun game to practice with kerning)
• Responsive CSS Grid

Just Cool Websites

• The Fish Doorbell
• This bahn mi place near my house
• Curlie.org - Human-curated website index #HumansDoItBetter

Web Design Inspiration

• CSS Zen Garden
• StyleStage.dev - like CSS Zen Garden, but open to new contributions
• Cameron's World - an archive of Geocities content

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