For over twenty years, every time a website caught my eye I grabbed a screenshot and dropped it into a folder. As an art director it was my way of keeping track of what felt fresh at the time. The folder quietly grew to almost 4,000 images.

I finally turned it into a browsable archive:
https://dmdev.it/webscreens

A few things you’ll notice scrolling through:

• the early 2000s: Flash intros, tiny fixed-width layouts, 1024×768 everything
• 2008–2010, the peak of the collection: glossy buttons, huge hero images, the rise of “web 2.0”
• the slow shift toward flat design, big typography and full-screen photography

Each screenshot is dated to the day I saved it. You can filter by year with the timeline at the top, or hit “Random” and just get lost.

No ads, no tracking, just the archive. Happy to hear which era hits you hardest.

After quite a while, I've finally finished the landing page for one of my projects.

What do you think of it?

Project TOFU

I recently updated my portfolio, Im a entry level web developer. I would love to know how can i improve.

I was exploring a few portfolios and found this interesting one by Sen..

You can check it out here: https://about.senbuzy.com/

Check it out here and let me know your thoughts ;)

Hey guys! Was looking for feedback on this landing page I made for an MUN youth summit of my friend. I'm new to the live web design pages with cinema scroll and other quirky things, but I will say I'm proud of myself for this one. All feedback is appreciated. The best experience is on desktop.

These are screenshots of the whole page. I designed each mini-page myself (some are from my brother aswell). Tell me what you think or if i should change one specific category. https://visitwhale.com/city-angle/ click on categorys to see the page.

Quick background. I run a solo web agency (Propello) and I build websites for US trade contractors: masonry, fencing, concrete, that kind of thing. I’ve done that for a while, but those sites are a totally different game. You’re selling someone else’s business to homeowners.

This is the first time I’ve ever built a landing page for my own agency, to sell myself. I’m just starting out and I honestly have no idea if it’s good or if it’s quietly killing my chances.

Link: https://propello.online

Please be brutal. Don’t be nice. I’d rather hear it here than after another 1,000 cold calls.

What I want to know:

• What do you think I do after 5 seconds on the page?
• Would you trust me enough to book a call or pay? If not, what feels off?
• What’s useless or missing?
• Is the offer and pricing clear, or confusing?
• Does it feel like it’s talking to a contractor, or to other web designers?

If you’ve ever hired an agency (or been a contractor who got cold called by one), your take matters most. Thanks in advance.

a non-coder and non-designer (me) made thiss!! https://www.worksruthi.com/ hope you love it <3

Developer (full-stack) with a math and science background, recently started getting into design. Appreciate any feedback on the layout, animations and if it is too much!

Check it out here! https://www.chenhongpo.com/

Also open to full-time, remote, and freelance opportunities.

The website for a company from Frauenfeld, Switzerland that repair freight wagons. Their old site was done on Jimdo, which is still available here https://www.rail-tec.ch/, as we are waiting for DNS setup from owner's side.

What we did:
A rail track runs down the whole page with a train on it, and each section sits in its own little rail-yard scene. That we use as we call it "business signature", we always try to do that for the our customers (sometimes it's not easy...), so website visitors can feel a bit of a wow effect and visually guess what business is dealing with without even reading texts.
Real photos of the two guys and their van.
The video in hero is AI generated.
“What a wagon costs while it stands still” comes right after the hero. Downtime is the customer’s real pain, so we lead with that.
The enquiry form asks for the wagon number and where it stands, so they can quote without calling back.

You can check new website on jtakeit which we use for hosting, CMS and enquiries - https://railtec-s29r.jtakeit.site/

Built in Astro, static. PageSpeed desktop: 100 / 100 / 100 / 100 https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-railtec-s29r-jtakeit-site/7jl2dlnq91?form_factor=desktop, same for mobile.

Video attached. What would you change?

Hello everyone, hope y'all doing well , i designed and built a music shop website as someone who is into music specially rock and metal . i tried to reflect the dark energetic theme of that genre.

Would like to have your feedback : https://rock-ma.vercel.app/

Hi everyone ! I just finished a small family-owned cleaning company's website, and wanted to share it with everyone. Full disclosure - i know that some of the images may not be the best, my client didnt exactly give me high quality photos to use, so i had to scrape their social media to try and get some usable ones plus some stock photos to clean up and use. Hopefully in the future some of the images can be swapped with more high quality photos.

Stack: Astro, plain scoped CSS, no CMS (copy lives in the pages), hosted on Cloudflare Workers. Contact form posts to a Worker that emails through Postmark.

My question: For those of you who build for small service businesses, how do you handle photography when the client doesnt provide high quality ones to use?

Site: sweetadelinescleaning.com

Unofficial redesign of the Misuko website, not affiliated with the brand. I worked mostly on spacing, alignment, and keeping the claims consistent from the hero to the footer. Which section feels weakest to you?

I'm 18, trying to build a web design business selling to small businesses in the US. I've spent months cold calling, and I genuinely don't know what I'm doing wrong anymore.

I've built my own professional agency website, portfolio, Facebook and X profiles to look as legitimate as possible. I can build good websites, and I've worked with paying clients before, but my only client just left, and I haven't managed to turn cold calling into consistent sales.

Here's where I'm struggling:

• Niche: I've jumped between excavation, demolition, fencing, PPF/wrap shops, and other contractors. How do I know if a niche is bad or if my sales approach just sucks? Which niche would you choose with practically $0 to invest?
• Cold calls: I keep changing my scripts and openers. Is there an opener you've personally used that actually works for selling websites?
• Demo links: I offer to build a website draft, text the owner the link, and they either never open it or never respond. Should I send the link or book a meeting on the call? What follow-up process has actually worked for you?
• Pricing: Should I charge $500 upfront + $97/month, $1,500 upfront + $97/month, or a small upfront fee with higher monthly payments? What have you actually sold websites for?
• Testimonials: Everyone says to build case studies and collect testimonials first. How am I supposed to do that without clients or money? And what's the point if prospects disappear before I can even show them my portfolio?
• What to sell: Should I stick with websites or sell another service that's easier to close through cold outreach and requires almost no investment?
• Are there any ways to get clients organically without cold calling or making YouTube videos?

I'm operating on practically $0, so paid ads aren't an option. Are there any underrated platforms, communities, groups, or outreach methods where you've personally managed to find business owners who were actually willing to pay for websites? I'd especially appreciate methods that work for someone starting with no audience, reputation, or existing network.

I'm not looking for motivation or generic advice like "keep grinding" or "provide value." I've already made roughly 1,000 calls. I need to identify what's broken before wasting another few months.

If you've actually sold websites or built a service business from zero, please tell me what has worked for you personally. Specific niches, prices, scripts, and follow-up methods would help far more than theories.

I'm genuinely lost on what to fix first.

As designers, we’re often so familiar with the websites we build that we might overlook things a first-time visitor finds confusing.

How do you usually test whether someone can quickly understand what a website does, who it’s for, and what action they should take?

I’ve been looking into five-second testing as one way to evaluate first impressions. I came across Five Second Roast which is built around that idea.

Curious to hear what other designers use to test messaging clarity before launching a website!

I keep seeing web designers worry that nobody will pay for their work now that AI can build websites.

If I thought there was no room left for us, I wouldn't have started my business.

But putting that aside, today I was thinking about a completely different industry: finance.

People still buy expensive investment funds that give them poor value. Yet we're starting to believe that selling a useful website at a fair price is impossible.

I know they're completely different industries. But that comparison gives me some hope: people haven't stopped paying for advice, trust or someone to handle things for them.

Most business owners don't want to spend their evenings building a website. They want someone they can trust to do it well and sort things out when they need help.

I'm not saying good work sells itself. We still need to find clients and explain our value.

But if you're a web designer feeling discouraged, I hope this thought helps you too. There are people selling things their customers barely benefit from. We have something useful to offer.

I use vibe coding for parts of my client web development projects, alongside manual work. Before building anything, though, I work with the client to understand their goals and suggest how the website could help them get there.

Those goals guide where I use AI. Sometimes fixing its output takes longer than building something myself, other times it saves hours. I can accept a compromise in polish where it doesn't affect usability, maintenance or the agreed requirements.

When those savings are real, I think both sides should benefit. I'm aiming for a Pareto improvement: I spend fewer hours on the build while keeping the same margin percentage, and the client pays less for a website that still meets their needs. I'm responsible for what I deliver, regardless of how I build it.

If you're using vibe coding for paid client work, do you think that's a fair balance?

Design: https://www.protectsus.tech

I am working on the landing page for ProtectSUS, a developer tool that relates third-party API changes to a codebase. The page needs to explain a technical workflow and help visitors decide whether to try it.

I would appreciate critique of three specific things:

• Does the first screen explain what the product does, or does the headline need more context?
• Is the order of explanation, product visuals, and calls to action easy to follow?
• Are the text contrast and spacing comfortable on mobile as well as desktop?

Please point out what you would remove or reorder. I am the maker, so I may be assuming too much familiarity with the product.

Hey , my mom just redid her website, she’s looking for some feedback about her design and layout. She’s not great with technology .

https://www.thefamilyjourney.net/

Would love some feedback on my react UI library that I am creating to showcase neo brutalism. I would appreciate any detailed feedback on experiance.

https://slurrps-mcgee.github.io/BrutalReactUI/

npm install brutal-react-ui

I'm a UX/UI designer and marketer, and I've spent years working with small businesses on their websites.

I've seen everything from confusing navigation and terrible information architecture to unclear messaging, inconsistent design, and websites that look nice but don't actually communicate what the business does.

And I get it. Small business owners aren't necessarily designers or marketers. They're using Wix, Squarespace, Elementor, or whatever tools they can afford, trying to figure it out themselves.

That's what inspired me to start building an AI-powered website auditing tool.

The goal isn't another generic report telling people to "improve their UX." I want it to identify specific issues, explain why they matter, and provide recommendations people can actually implement.

I've already designed the prototype and built the initial structure in Lovable. Now comes the hard part: figuring out whether AI can evaluate websites with the level of accuracy and judgment I'm looking for.

I'm documenting the experiment while developing and testing the analysis engine privately.

For other web designers: what's the most common mistake you see small business owners make when building their own websites?

So there’s this local boba shop I’ve been visiting, and I recently checked out their website. As someone interested in graphic and UI design, I noticed a few things that could be improved. The layout feels a little cluttered, there's a lot of imagery competing for attention, and there isn't much negative space, which makes the website feel a bit overwhelming to navigate. I thought it could be a fun personal project to redesign their website while practicing my UI/UX skills. I’d love to create something that feels more organized, visually appealing, and user friendly while still maintaining the shop’s original brand identity.

I've also considered reaching out to the business owner to share my ideas, but I'm not sure what the appropriate approach would be. Would it be better to redesign the website first and then contact them, or reach out beforehand to see if they'd be interested? Has anyone done something similar with a local business? I'd love to hear about your experience, how you approached the owner (if you did), and whether anything came out of it!

I built Subscene - https://subscene.io , which turns a topic or script into a finished Long form YouTube video.

Looking for feedback for my landing page. Any pointers on how to improve CTA will be helpful.

What I went for: a near-black background with one neon-lime accent, Chakra Petch for headings, live shader backgrounds, and real output videos high up to prove it isn't AI slideshow slop.

Hoping to get some feedback on:

1. Do you get what it does within 5 seconds?

2. Is the neon working, or is it too gamer-y?

3. Where would you stop scrolling?

Happy to return the favour on your site. Thanks for reading