Welcome to Girlstalgia!

Welcome to Girlstalgia!

This is a tiny little Blogger hub for cute internet things: widgets, tutorials, resources, old-web style codes, pastel layouts, and copy/paste blog decorations for anyone who misses when websites felt personal.

A lot of the modern internet is very clean, very flat, very mobile-first, and very “please accept our cookies before reading three sentences.” That has its uses, sure. But sometimes a website should feel like a bedroom wall, a sticker book, a dollhouse, a scrapbook, a glitter pen, a secret folder, a desktop full of icons, or a little corner of the internet that belongs to one person because they made it that way.

That is the energy here.

This blog will focus mostly on Blogger-friendly resources, especially things you can paste into HTML/JavaScript gadgets, pages, posts, or your theme CSS. Some things may work on Tumblr or regular websites too, but Blogger is the main character for now.

Things we might post here:

♡ sidebar widgets
♡ currently boxes
♡ update tickers
♡ fake marquee effects that still work in modern browsers
♡ mini calendars
♡ link buttons
♡ affiliate boxes
♡ cute navigation bars
♡ label and archive styling
♡ status message styling
♡ resource pages
♡ Sanrio-inspired color palettes
♡ old-web effects without too much JavaScript
♡ tiny CSS fixes for people who like decorating their blogs more than debugging them

The goal is not to make the most professional website in the world. The goal is to make websites feel fun again.

You should be able to open your blog and think, “Yes. This is mine.”

So welcome in. Grab a tiny pixel chair. We’re building the cute web again, one little box at a time.

— M & C