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• shrines: decorate some of your pages to be about your favourite media
• toybox: want to display pics, gifs, and widgets on your site but don't know where to put them? just make a new page dedicated to the random crap. no need to organize it.
• comments: you don't need wordpress or the like for them! i have disqus but you can shop around to see what you want.
• show off the stuff you have
• guestbook: like in old times. ise use 123guestbook but that's shutting down so you may have to look around. tip: a guestbook can literally just be a page dedicated to a comments widget.
• webgardens/greenhouse: this thing. create a 250x250 size bit of your website and let everyone embed it on theirs as an iframe
• EDIT: oh yeah, secrets and easter eggs! this share, with a related but different idea reminded me of those
• these ideas
• EDIT 2: a now page: mine is just a link to my media thread, my backloggd playing, and a bunch of widgets to pull in data from last.fm and goodreads so that I don't have to remember to update the page, but you might be fine with that.
• EDIT 2: credits! list what you used to make your website, from resources to tools. maybe also thank anyone who helped you.
• EDIT 3: links to other websites. this is kind of important do that people who find your website can find more. your friends, sites that look cool or have cool stuff, YouTube channels that you like, etc.
• EDIT 4: these 100 things, suggested by @noahtheduke

and of course, explore around neocities and nekoweb and see what else you can do!

I understand if you want full resolution for art, but my internet connection begs you to become familiar with an image compressor like TinyPNG or similar

it's cheap and easy, if you've got big files embedded in a page (like high-resolution images/video/audio), you can just tell the browser to only load them when needed

CSS has a property called image-rendering and one of the values is pixelated.

The image is scaled with the "nearest neighbor" or similar algorithm to the nearest integer multiple of the original image size, then uses smooth interpolation to bring the image to the final desired size. This is intended to preserve a "pixelated" look without introducing scaling artifacts when the upscaled resolution isn't an integer multiple of the original.

So if you want to have your pixelart pieces on your website keep their look when you make them bigger/smaller¹, image-rendering: pixelated is your best friend

1. assuming you use integer increments of size. I'm assuming most pixelart artists are aware that resizing to 1.2x or 3.6x the size is Not A Good Time but you never know haha

It turns out, @modernmodron has had Edgebug textures for the Intern Secretary Eggbug model this whole time! I've finally got my hands on those so now....

BAM

Get them here!

Also I've posted about these for the first time ever on my Mastodon account, so spread the word there too if you want