This is my honorary page for crediting any resource used (and inspired) for making my own webpage!
Without these, my site won't have been made possible in the first place
One of my favorite themes (alongside Arc-Dark) for GTK and XFCE4 that gave me the push to get inspired from visually. The following used to be on my (previous) Linux Mint and (permanently moved to) Debian setup with XFCE.
My liking for this theme was lots, especially for the fact it used to reduce drastically by few MBs the RAM usage (around 450mb~) when i formerly was on my XFCE setup. Due to recent changes into tastes and setup, i have ditched XFCE in favor of PekWM (not only due to it's lighter footprint, but also how it's my all-time favourite WM due to it's features and whatnot in exchange of lesser packages) + Lemonbar.
Despite my permanent move to PekWM, i have done (exactly time before doing the DE-to-WM switch) a pretty good, faithful, and fitting port of my very favorite GTK theme for PekWM aswell- except the only downside to this is that it works if i am under version 0.2.0 of the WM (i tried to test it on a previous release and it appears terribly borked).
If you want to get a good sneak-peek of the original theme (despite the original author has abandoned development due to various reasons in the issues), you can give it a nice look over here and probably use it for your own XFCE theme, too (this is a criminally underrated neutral b&w theme, honestly)
This is the color palette used for (almost) the entirety of my own site, and the source of it comes from a VIM Palette of the same name- i have picked this one for integrating much more better the whole "simple desktop" aesthetic for my own site.
This is the font i have mainly use for my own website, and also definitely inspired from the fact it's the font of my own choice i utilize on my machine's terminal emulator (aside being FOSS, too).
Despite the font looks a bit uninteresting for some, i have still picked it anyways for integrating better my site's general aesthetic.
It may sound curious, but across the site i had made some tiny exclusive artwork for it (aside the main/landing page)- if you explore throughout the source code or mess up with my site, you will find a little treat that includes the rest of my drawn assets (it's easy to find lol).
I have found this site possibly during a reddit browse, back in 2022 or so, and i've felt this site offered just the right minimalistic backgrounds for my own website- it just completes well the overall "simple desktop" look and vibe of my site.
In case you may have noticed, i tend to pull the credits for the background used on the left corner of the page.
Aside being a good choice for minimal backgrounds for your own website, it's main purpose matches completely well by this nichè and small site:
offering simple desktop images.
Big credits to the people behind that made this site possible!
This is the page i have gathered any kind of icon possible for my webpage (socials and navigation bar on my articles) overall.
The site is overall great if you want to gather assets for your social media icons (ex. discord, twitter/X, etc.), especially if they're popular and used by many people- yet the site falls flat if you try to aim for federated platforms (like Pixelfed, i have gathered the icon from another source), that's where it becomes a real struggle.
Adding to the issue, it's best advice to use these as local assets saved within your webpage:
the servers that host them drastically slow down loading times (sadly).
Aside these downsides, it can be the best site to get minimal icons for your webpage- especially with a modern look, too.
Possibly one of my biggest inspirations in terms of bringing out my creativity and "me vibes" throughout my own site as a whole.
Personally speaking, during my own exploration through the user pages:
i've quite loved the early 2000s aesthetics with all of the decors and such, honestly.
Because of such big creativity i've saw within the userbase, it gave me this big push to strand out from the "super minimalistic" concept of my webpage (originally, it was going to be heavily inspired by thebestmotherfucking.website) and, instead, bring out all of my artistic creativity channeled through this very website.