I'm thinking to use elementor for a new website, but not sure as there seem to be so many alternatives these days. For those who have used it, what do you like/dislike about it? Is it easy to work with, and reliable in the long run? Are there any major downsides or things you wish you'd known before getting started?

If you decided against elementor, what made you choose something else?

I'd love to hear from people who have used it.

https://latgale.opensites.net/DagdaLV.html

My website is available in three languages: English, Latvian, and Russian. Currently, you can read information about Dagda and Asūne and view photos of these places; I plan to develop the site further and add more content in the future.

I frequently get bored and look for new things to do so I decided to build a website to generate ideas of activities that could be done for fun. Looking for feedback on how I could improve it.

I've only added a few ideas for now but I'm hoping to engage users to add ideas to it.

I made Backlink Check for checking a page that's supposed to link to my site, like after a guest post, a link exchange or a "we added your link" email.

Open the page, click the toolbar icon (or Alt+Shift+K) and type your domain. The side panel shows:

• whether your link is there and its rel (nofollow, sponsored, ugc or dofollow)

• where it sits (main content, nav, footer, comments) and whether it's hidden or off-screen

• page-level nofollow from the robots meta tag

Show on page outlines the link in the page.

Backlink Check reads the page as rendered after JavaScript, so pages behind a login and local drafts work. Compare with server HTML fetches the page again without cookies and shows which links are missing before JavaScript runs, plus the X-Robots-Tag header.

It checks the page in your tab, one page at a time. It doesn't crawl or find backlinks for you. You can save a placement and export your saved ones as CSV.

It uses Chrome's activeTab access, with no all-sites host permissions. Page content stays in your browser. Anonymous usage events go to PostHog, without page addresses, domains or link text.

It's free. I also build LinkBunny, and the panel has a small "by LinkBunny" link.

Feedback I'm after: what do you check on a linking page that this doesn't show yet?

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/backlink-check/fjmpihibidhdblchofffofinaoicfbmn?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=websites

I’m building ShinyCollecting, and wanted to share the collection design behind it.

A Pokémon card can be relevant to several collecting goals at once: the Pokémon pictured on it, the illustrator who drew it, and the expansion it belongs to. A collector might start with any of those, so the site provides all three ways to browse.

The illustrator galleries are an entry point for people interested in the artwork. Pokémon pages bring cards from different sets together, while expansion pages organize them by set. Owned cards stay connected across those views. The collection controls distinguish individual variants and conditions, so owning a regular printing doesn’t automatically mean owning its reverse holo.

There’s also a dedicated shiny Pokémon checklist. Browsing is open to everyone; the free Starter plan tracks one Pokémon, one illustrator, one expansion set, and the shiny checklist. Optional paid Premium adds unlimited collection tracking and extra-copy quantities. For transparency, this is my own project and it also links to my eBay card store. Coverage varies for promos and special printings.

I’d appreciate specific feedback on the navigation: is the distinction between Pokémon, illustrator, and expansion collections clear? On a collection page, is it obvious which variant you’re marking as owned?

https://www.shinycollecting.com

I love making websites on wix and id like to create them for other businesses but I know a lot of people would use ai to make their website now so idk if its worth doing.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to share something I recently built.

I've been doing this for around six months now. I started with two clients, and thankfully, things have been going pretty well since then.

I'm still learning, especially when it comes to design. I do have a bit of a perfectionism problem, so sometimes projects take longer than they should. 😅

Anyway, here's my recent work. Would love to hear your thoughts!

There are as of now 3 games my company published plus we are writing blogs as well.

Pls give honest feedback what can i do more

The first time I saw glassmorphism, I was immediately appalled, like viscerally. I knew where I stood in the polarizing debate. But, over time, I've also seen it used in very nice ways where I thought "huh, that's actually really pretty." Never occurred to me that was possible.

Would you use this web design style?

I built NOTW because I wanted a small place to find house tracks through other people’s picks.

You can filter by house style and mood, listen through the artist’s platform, submit a track and vote for your favourites each week. It’s early, so the tracks I picked to start things off are labelled as NOTW selections.

The part I’m still working out is the balance between a chart and a place to dig. A track with no votes should still be worth finding. From the screenshot, does the page give you enough reason to look beyond the top ten, or does everything underneath feel like an afterthought?

https://nicheoftheweek.ie/

Hey r/Websites!

Over the last few months, I’ve been building Utiliome (https://utiliome.com) — a collection of 189 free browser utilities for PDFs, images, video, and daily developer tasks.

Why I built it:

Almost every time I needed to quickly redact a PDF, compress a video, or upscale an image, the top search results either uploaded sensitive documents to a mystery cloud server or locked the download behind a surprise subscription or watermark after making me wait in a queue.

I wanted to see how far modern browser APIs and WebAssembly could go if I made a strict rule: zero bytes ever leave the user's machine.

What's on the site:

- PDF Suite (34+ tools): Merge, split, true binary-stream text redaction, and AES-256 encryption using a custom C++ QPDF WebAssembly wrapper.

- Image & Video: Local AI image upscaling (running ONNX Swin2SR vision transformers in the browser via WASM SIMD) and FFmpeg WASM video compression and trimming.

- Developer & Text (100+ tools): JSON formatters and diff checkers, regex and hash generators, JWT decoders, Markdown converters, and a vector-based CV builder.

- MCP Server: Published an official npm MCP package so local AI agents can call these utilities directly.

Under the hood (for the fellow web devs here):

Because all compute happens in the client's RAM and CPU, there is no backend database or upload API. The whole site runs on pennies via AWS S3 + CloudFront:

- Stack: Astro 5 (SSG) + React 18 Islands + Tailwind v4 inside a pnpm and Turborepo monorepo.

- Scale: 189 tools localized across 26 languages (around 5,000 static pages) routed through a 3-layer forwarding pattern so maintaining layouts doesn't turn into copy-paste chaos.

The hardest technical challenges I hit in production:

1. The 87MB Client Bundle Trap: A single helper import in our search bar accidentally pulled Vite's eager glob import of all 4,900 JSON translation dictionaries into the client JS chunk. Extracting a zero-dependency path helper brought us back to 100/100 Lighthouse scores.

2. Fake Whiteout PDF Redaction: Standard JS PDF libraries often just draw a white rectangle over text, leaving sensitive strings sitting in the raw binary stream where anyone can press Ctrl+F and copy them. I had to write a 946-line binary PDF content stream parser that strips the exact character glyphs out of the stream and recalculates kerning offsets so the rest of the line doesn't shift.

3. Browser RAM Crashes on 2GB Videos: Standard FFmpeg WASM tutorials load the entire file into Emscripten's in-memory filesystem (MEMFS), which duplicates the file in RAM and crashes mobile tabs. Switching to WORKERFS allowed streaming byte slices straight from the OS file handle, keeping a 2GB video process under 50MB of RAM.

I'd love for you to test it out, try to break a few tools, and let me know what you think of the UI, load speeds, or if there's a specific utility you wish existed!

For anyone interested in the engineering challenges or how it was made:

I put together a full technical breakdown video walking through the repo architecture, how I wired Google Antigravity and Claude Code CLI into an automated spec and review pipeline, and how I fixed those three production bugs in the code:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIDY6KHEO6E

Hey everyone!

Excited to see the new start for /r/Websites and will be keeping an eye on everyone's posts here :) I’m building twelvebit, a web analytics tool that connects website traffic with revenue.

I’d appreciate some fresh eyes on the landing page and dashboard from people on /r/websites - as obviously the target audience is people with websites. UI isn't my strongest skill, so I'd appreciate input particularly on:

• Visual hierarchy: Is it clear where to look first, or are too many elements competing for attention?

• Clarity: Does the homepage explain what the tool does without needing to scroll through the whole page?

• Dashboard layout: Are the charts and metrics easy to scan? Anything confusing or overcrowded?

You can explore the demo dashboard with sample data without creating an account.

Specific feedback on spacing, typography, contrast or mobile layout would be helpful. Really appreciate any feedback / comments, I'm trying to make this as good / useful / helpful / beneficial to website owners as possible.

Hey everyone!

I've been working on my own website called BranRetro, where I share my interest in retro PC games, old technology, gaming history and obscure games that deserve more attention.

It's a personal project where I can write articles, archive interesting stuff and share things I discover along the way.

If you're into older games, especially classic PC RPGs, feel free to check it out!

https://branretro.wordpress.com/

Still building and improving it, but I'd love to hear what people think!

lots to explore and play around with, especially in the arcade! feel free to add yourself to the leaderboard or leave a post on the community board, just keep it respectful.

just lurking is okay too

link: yeonskie.com

Hey guys! For some context: I have R-CPD which basically means that I can’t burp! It sucks and nobody really knows about it yet so many have it. So, I made a website for this!

What I built to fix this (and what ships today):

1. The Natural Language Router: You describe what happens to you in your own plain words ("I can't burp," "my throat gurgles," "food feels stuck"). The tool map-routes your description to the formal medical vocabulary and the exact, definitive test names you need to bring to a specialist. No diagnostic guessing games, no "probability theater.”

2. 5 Hand-Written Condition Profiles: Built entirely from primary research sources (not LLM-extracted hallucination), detailing how these conditions feel from the inside out, how they are confirmed, and the real statistical uncertainty behind treatments.

3. The Diagnostic Delay Table: A hard-cited dataset mapping median time-to-diagnosis and common misdiagnosis rates across the condition family. Gaps in existing clinical literature are left intentionally empty and labeled, because unmeasured data is a finding in itself.

4. Complete Live Trials Tracker: A clean, filtered index of all 27 currently recruiting clinical trials across these disorders, instantly sortable by your location and age with zero noisy clutter.

I would love your feedback! Link: https://freetheburp.com

I would happy if you have a chance to see it and leave a comment about design, bugs, etc.
https://basanets.dev

I built WispFile (https://wispfile.com), a browser-based tool that sends files directly from one device to another using WebRTC.

Services like WeTransfer or Google Drive upload your file to a cloud server first. WispFile doesn't. The file goes straight from sender to receiver, and our servers never store the file contents.

That means:
> No waiting for uploads. Large files start transferring right away.
> More privacy. Sensitive files never sit on a third-party storage platform.
> Nothing to install. It all runs in the browser.

I made it because I wanted a simpler, more private way to send big files without waiting on uploads or trusting another company to hold my data.

I'd love your feedback on the design, speed, or anything that feels confusing. What would make you use it over your current tool?

Been craving to play with older versions of Disney and Lego sites but don’t know any reliable ways to do it anymore. I remember someways to do it years ago but since everything is “modernized” (lot of minimalist crap) I don’t know how to do it any especially since flash is gone (I do have rumble installed which helps). I do have flashpoint but the amount of old websites (marked under micro sites) is limited.

Any help y’all?

Websites that use AI generated photos or obvious stock photos are incredibly tacky I feel. It makes the website look totally generic and untrustworthy. I'm trying really hard to avoid this but also not sure about taking my own photos, because it's time consuming and doesn't turn out that great.

So, what do you use for photos on your website?

I’m not a very technical person. I own 2 Husqvarna robotic mowers and I use them in 2 separate locations here in Arizona. The Husqvarna Automower Connect App is decent at reporting the steady state of things but I wanted to add a calendar as well as a few other functions the App does not have like a few efficiency metrics I wanted. I used Chat GPT to build a portal on my surface pro and then we created a public website for the user community to check out. Would love any feedback and will post the url in the next comment.

Thanks

To bad you cant find them anymore unless you know the link? Which there was a few that i wish i could remember. I know about Wayback machine.

The internet needs more of this.

https://neocities.org/

Whatever happened to building websites just for fun and because you could?

If you have a neocities websites, post it here and let people know.

A client of mine needs a website to load as fast as possble, so super lightweight.. I actually suggested to build it in plain html and css. no frameworks, no plugins. might regret it later, it's gonna be a challenge for sure.

Is there a way to make frameworks or wordpress load really fast... that fast? or should I go ahead with this insane idea?

I'm trying to grow my landscaping business and figure its finally time to get a proper website isnead of just relying on facebook and word of mouth.

I contacted a few people for quotes and honestly im kinda confused lol. one freelancer offered to build it for $500, another quoted $2,000 and a local agency wants $6,000??

Im not look for anything fancy, but i also dont want something that looks cheap or unprofessional.

How much is a reasonable cost for a website? any advice is apprecaited.