Weird Web October

What?

Weird Web October is a challenge to try and make a website every day of October, based on the theme for each day, inspired by Inktober. It’s open to you and everyone!

Why?

We want to bring back the WEIRD WEB. When people just put fun and silly stuff on the internet, not for followers or likes but just for the joy of making something and sharing it.

How?

Step 1: Just make a website!

It can be static, dynamic, made with a website builder - whatever you’re comfortable with. We recommend about an hour to get the creative juices flowing, but it’s up to you.

Step 2: Share it!

This step is optional, but we’d really love to see what everyone is making! Our friends at Octothorpes have made it super easy to get your site listed on the #weirdweboctober hashtag. Just register your domain name here and then have your pages ping them using either a code snippet in the header or a magic button in the body:

<head> code:

<link rel="preload" as="fetch" 
    href="https://octothorp.es/?uri=https://yoururlhere">

Click to copy OR a magic button in the <body>: <img src="https://octothorp.es/badge?uri=https://yoururlhere"> Click to copy

Either way, make sure to add your hashtags!

This snippet goes in the <head> section. It includes the WWO hashtag and one for the theme which is updated every day: <link rel="octo:octothorpes" href="weirdweboctober" > <link rel="octo:octothorpes" href="Reveal" > Click to copy

Examples

You can explore all the pages made for WWO by year and themes with the new WWO Browser, with live updates via Octothorpes.
Also check out these websites, which were part of the inspiration for WWO!

About

My name is Jay Zuerndorfer and I decided to organize Weird Web October after talking about the idea with fellow attendees of the 2024 XOXO festival. If you have any feedback or ideas shoot me an email at jzplusplus [at] gmail.com. Or send me a pull request on Github. Special thanks to Nobel Yoo and all my friends for helping create the theme list!

Previous year's pages can be found here and here!