A home for handmade websites

The web is yours.

Neocities gives you a free place to create a personal, static HTML web site that looks, sounds, and feels like you.

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Why Neocities

A bulwark for the web’s independent spirit.

Since 2013, Neocities has helped people build independent, static HTML websites. Today, we’ve become one of the last, best hopes for the web.

As social media gets increasingly divisive, shill and evil, we stand as a last line of defense for the creativity and independence of the web.

A personal website on Neocities is a clean break from garbage social media like Facebook and Twitter: a place you shape from the first heading to the last pixel. Unlike social media, sites don’t succeed here by making people hate each other to maximize ad clicks. They succeed by being awesome.

We believe the web gets better when more people can make it, not just doomscroll through it. Neocities exists to keep that door open, so anyone can learn, experiment, share what they love, and build at their own pace. It's becoming more important with each passing year, not just for the future of the web, but for the future of humanity. Break out of the social media dungeons and join us.

What we stand for

Your creativity comes first.

The service is designed around a few promises that keep your corner of the web yours.

Freedom to create

No tiny text box prisons here. You get the entire browser window.

Free to start

Neocities will always offer a free way to make and host a website. Curiosity is all you need to get started.

Your site stays yours

You own your site, we just host it. Download your files whenever you want.

No ad business

We do not put ads or watermarks on your site, and we do not sell your data to marketers or AI companies.

Learn by making

Build a real site while you learn HTML and CSS. Experiment freely, see your changes online, and grow your skills at your own pace.

Built to last

Supporter plans and donations help us grow sustainably without compromising the principles that brought us here.

What will you make?

Make a place that could only be yours.

A site can be useful, personal, serious, silly, polished, unfinished, or all of those at once. On Neocities, weird is a good thing.

  • Personal homepage
  • Art portfolio
  • Fan shrine
  • Digital garden
  • Project notes
  • Online zine
  • Community archive
  • Strange experiment
  • Affront to sanity

Long live the web

You do not need permission to make something meaningful.

You just need an idea and a blank page.

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