- 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'd like to add "find-its"!
They used to be common on early "cyberpet" sites - and I don't mean neopets, I mean "hand drawn gifs of dragons made by teenagers and middle aged women." Angel's Chimera Dreams is a still-exant cyberpet site, though it doesn't have a "find it" feature.
Find-Its mostly survive today in the Petz fanbase, which has a thriving fansite culture. The Petz Site Directory even lets you filter specifically for websites that have a Find-It section. Basically, what you do is you have a page that acts as the "quest" - a cute little paragraph and image that conveys what the website-visitor needs to look for. Something like:
Sparky the dragon has lost the most precious ruby in her dragon's hoard! She's looked for it everywhere, but she can't figure out where she last put it. Will you help her look through [website name] to find it? She'll be so grateful!
Then, on a random part of your website, you sneak an image file (in the above example, you'd use an image of a red gemstone) with a hyperlink to a "reward page" somewhere. Once the person enters the "reward page", you thank the visitor to your site for finding the missing object, and give them something in return - most typically, a little prize graphic saying that you found the missing object, which visitors can then display on their own site. Like this.
There's also more elaborate styles of find-it, where visitors must find multiple objects, whose "reward pages" each give some piece of a password for the final "reward page." Cargo Petz and Gossipin are two fansites that include this more elaborate find-it system.
Old cyberpet sites would usually distribute "rare" or "special" cyberpets in this way, such as a rainbow unicorn gif on a site that mostly offered naturally-colored unicorn gifs to "adopt"; likewise, Petz sites sometimes distribute downloadable gameplay goodies, like adoptable pets and "hexed" custom content add-ons, via find-its.
Find-Its are something that are easier to pull off on static websites than through posting on social media, and encourage visitors to be playful and observant as they browse your site. They're really cool, and I want to see more people incorporate them!