The most important feature of your site if you want consistent readers! RSS allows a program called an RSS Reader to automatically check for updates without going through the effort of visiting individual sites! Its also what our syndication pipeline (for example, the Recent Feeds section on the main page).
A Gentle Intro to RSS - some motivation for RSS vs regular recommendation algorithms
An Intro to RSS Feeds - a guide on how RSS readers and aggregation actually works
Notes on the small web - has some good further reading, see the reference section
POSSE - “the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties (like social media silos) with original post links to provide viewers a path to directly interacting with your content.”
Learn How to Make Websites! - Neocities guide. A good link collection to other resources.
Neocities HTML Course - An intro-level HTML tutorial in the form of a cute interactive webcomic about a cat
Tilable Backgrounds - Funky backgrounds! Hover over them to try them out!
Tiled Backgrounds - More BGs, this time arranged by color
GifCities - A GIF search engine that searches Geocities sites! Run by the Internet Archive.
Wiby.me - A traditional search engine that specifically only indexes ‘smaller’ websites
Marginelia - Similar to wiby but with an emphasis on serendipity over direct relevance. Good for finding stuff you didn’t know you wanted!