100 questions for the webmaster


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1. Please introduce yourself.

my name is XXXXXXXXX and i am eighteen years old and i am also a girl

2. How long have you been making websites?

2021 was patient 0 of my tumblr blog and shortly after that i moved to neocities

3. And what got you into the hobby?

i knew this girl rebecca. she linked her personal neocities into her instagram bio and i thought it was pretty cool. thanks reb for putting me on!

4. What kind of website are you most interested in?

i love websites containing peoples personal thoughts, photos, projects, and artwork. any sort of website housing personal projects where i can picture who the webmaster is, those are the websites i spend most of my time searching for

5. What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?

i just do stuff as the ideas come to me. the most planning i do is sketching what i want the layout to look like on paper, but apart from that, its just trial and error trying to make my site look visually appealing. its not too hard on this website because i kept the css simple but that means i have to focus more on layout and stuff than color which can be difficult especially when im not 100% what the subpage is trying to convey

6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.

mouchette
w3schools
lucian freud
snejana onopka
arthur's journal

7. What's your favourite part about making websites?

it can be my own personal corner of the internet where i can share (almost) anything anonymously without fear of backlash or judgement and i am also free to express myself in a form of art that isnt common, at least within my circle. i consider this art.

8. And the thing you struggle with the most?

visually appealing website design

9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?

same css to stick with my times-new-roman dotted b+w theme, but i like to switch up the layout every once in a while as html exercise and to keep shit interesting for the viewer.

10. How confident are you with CSS?

i am....okay!! i mean, i managed to throw together this shithole

11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?

who even cares?

12. What is your favourite HTML element?

<img> my beloved....

13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?

well, first you gotta figure out exactly what you want on the webpage, then sketch it out on paper and work your way around from there

14. Do you know JavaScript?

ABSOLUTELY NOT

15. How about PHP?

ABSOLUTELY NOT

16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?

yes!!!!!!!!!! times new roman. size 12. 1px letter spacing. white background. dotted borders. 1.3px.

17. Are you more focused on content or design?

content. the design doesnt matter to me as long as i can get all my thoughts out of my head onto this website

18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?

i do not! maybe one day if i strike rich

19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?

i think they can look pretty cool but sometimes they lag my shitty laptop to death. and also, if the content of the website itself is good, then it significantly increases how much i can appreciate the aesthetic

20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?

i dont even bother checking. if i dont know about it, then it cant be a problem to me

21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?

bring back buttons!!!!!

22. What do you think of button walls in particular?

visually odd to look at but can be cool at times

23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?

without a doubt similar. my css/html capabilities are lacking and these kinds of thoughts have been living in my head for years now, so the content would undoubtedly stay the same.

24. Are you envious of other people's websites?

Yes

25. What text editor do you use?

the built in neocities one

26. Why do you use that one?

its just convenient. i dont care too much about not being able to see the updates in real time. i just spam the same button and view my site and refresh a jillion times. aint nobody got time for no visual studio!

27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?

on neocities. none of my image files are really that important

28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?

its all the same shit man nekoweb is just slightly gayer

29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?

approximately 10mb

30. Do you keep local backups of your files?

no...but i probably should #dontcare

31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?

for my own website, i prefer simple, that way i can focus more on the content of the website itself rather than aesthetics, because thats the part that matters the most to me. from a viewing standpoint, i guess i can say both dont matter as long as the content fits/is good

32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?

black and white and black and white and black and white and black and white and black and white and i guess blue when you hover links

33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?

many times! and as a matter of fact, i HAVE quit before. there are around 4-5 versions of my websites, a few of which have been lost due to me rage deleting them. this time around, i dont think i'll quit though.

34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?

i have ZERO. this is for me and me alone! nobody else in the real life world likes this stuff!

35. Do people in your real life know about your website?

only the ones that know how to keep secrets. jacob knows and i trust him. i talk about deeply personal stuff on here sometimes so id rather it all stat anonymous.

36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?

quite often! as of current im very fixated on this website so its been nearly every day ive added or edited something.

37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?

i do not change it much because i really like what ive got going on. the most i do is tweak it for optimization/mobile use (which im still working on).

38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?

me + my hobbies, which in a way, are a part of me. consider it a digital portfolio of sorts combined with a diary.

39. Do you do web design professionally?

lol

40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?

nope nope nope. doing anything professionally ruins it as a hobby. man...im stuck in the administrator corridor of retail hell.

41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?

2100 unread on my personal email and 3500 unread on my work email. i dont talk to that many people anyway

42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?

because i like this website to be an anonymous side project im trying to keep it as far away from my social media as possible. unfortunately its just difficult to use websites for human connection the way social media does because its such a niche, so even if I did have then connected, i wouldnt use it for networking purposes

43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?

discord for games and imessage for people. i avoid the sketchy ones like telegram. "I have telegram," yeah dude you also have a court date. stay away from me

44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?

yes yes yes!! screamo and second wave emo have my heart as well as edm. snow strippers and texas is the reason are my go-tos at the moment

45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?

im sooo freaking disorganized. if i had more than one website, i wouldnt be able to keep track of anything

46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?

everything goes! this is all just a massive brain dump.

47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?

unfortunately i dont think i could construct a persona even if i tried my hardest. this is as real as it gets.

48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?

never ever

49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?

im pleased! there is nothing i can think of to optimize it

50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?

im sooo guilty of this but fixed heights have got to go. use min-height or let the content define height. also inline styles in images and stuff. gotta move all that to css. i also tend to wrap EVERYTHING in divs, like i completely forget about semantic tags. my brain just isnt wired in a way where it makes sense to me. generic tags for life!

51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?

max-width prevents lines from getting freakishly long. also , mobile design

52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?

see question 50

53. Do you consider different browsers?

my code is very simple so it should work in most, if not all browsers

54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.

im a google chrome + safari warrior. its easy. its easy and convenient. and free, and everyone uses it. so who cares.

55. And what OS are you on?

macOS specifically tahoe!

56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?

not really. i know macOS gets a lot of hate because its not very compatible with shit but ive had my macbook since 2019 and i plan to have it for many more years. it was a gift from my dad and i just dont have the funds to replace it. this macbook has seen so many different phases of mine and it contains sooo many historical photos and apps and screenshots and such. its just too much effort to replace, plus, id have to learn how to use a different OS.

57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?

ABSOLUTELY NOT

58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?

freaks me out + no one uses it properly

59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?

i think they are cool but can be a little misleading and difficult to navigate, especially if im looking for a specific type of content. i am not in any webrings and i dont plan on being in any

60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?

i dont have any as of current but im constantly adding and tweaking stuff so many one day ill make one dedicated to a hobby or music or something.

61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?

yes!! i am cliche and i am boring. this site is more for me than anyone else.

62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?

my ideal website is soemthing that combines writing, whether poetic or discursive or opinionated, as well as visual art. im not really striving for anything but my site meets some of that criteria.

63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?

i guess i am. i draw all my own assets.

64. What are your favourite resource sites?

w3schools,
texturetown

65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?

wrapping everything in a div + disregarding semantic tags

66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?

do. not. copy. code. do that shit yourself. pry apart open source code. dig through it and tweak it and do whatever the fuck you want to it because that is the easiest place to learn. but for the love of god, do the work yourself and dont discredit the others who took the time to learn it

67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?

i try to keep it all in css but at times there are element-specific things i want to add so i just gotta do it as inline styles

68. What do you think of frameset layouts?

not too fond ngl

69. How about table-based layouts?

outdated!

70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?

my brain doesnt really work that way. i just do whatever fits my website

71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?

definitely the html. the css is the same on pretty much every subpage of mine, so usually i just copy and paste it from my index or smth. the html is the most time consuming because it varies from page to page.

72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.

i have not!

73. Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?

never ever. wayyyyyyyy too much work. i only make them for myself when i need them.

74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?

im an amateur for sure. i know some stuff, but all the stuff i make looks like shit and i rely on free css and html resource websites a lot.

75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?

all. the. time. its my favorite when they leave little notes for whoever's viewing it..like easter eggs

76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?

a combination of w3schools as ive mentioned previously and tearing through old code! i just go through it and tweak it and decimate it and tear it apart and glue it all back together until things make sense. and i do this over and over again until my pattern recognition skills kick in and i realize i almost know what im doing.

77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?

only if 100% necessary

78. Thoughts on floating elements?

i dont think ive ever seen these used properly or effectively

79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?

px is my default but % if im feeling frisky

80. Do you have a favourite font?

times new roman spaced with 1px between each character

81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?

nope nope nope. this is my space only!!!!

82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?

constantly. if youre reading this and you own a personal website, please sign my guestbook!!!!!

83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?

i had like 100 bookmarks of other peoples websites that i recently purged. if someone bookmarked mine at first id feel flattered that they think my htmlslop is bookmark-worthy but that feeling would fade to embarassment knowing the content of what i write on here.

84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?

my retardation level. its out of this world

85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?

i am not and no

86. How often and for how long are you online?

probably around 6 hours a day. although, most of my time offline is spent either working or napping

87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?

emotional idiots like me. i hope that through reading the shit i write, somebody somewhere will find comfort in the fact that we share the same irrational thinking and autism.

88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?

i dont know if i have it in me to learn a different set of syntax rules but if it has benefits then maybe

89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?

i used to use lua for roblox but that was many many moons ago

90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?

idk ive never used one

91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?

id like to implement one soon! neocities has a built in feature already though to see how many views my site has

92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?

i do not

93. Do you write your page content directly into the editor, or do you prepare it elsewhere, like a text document or a Word document?

all of my page content gets written directly into the outdated neocities text editor. its just convenient.

94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?

not at all, maybe sometimes

95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?

ABSOLUTELY

96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?

id probably close it down. there is something poetic about smiting my website off of the face of the earth

97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?

i reveal a lot, probably way more than i should. i mean, ive told so much specific shit on here, plus my handwriting is on here, plus personal art projects. if anyone who knows me in real life saw this and put two and two together, my cover would be blown immediately

98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?

his name is max. we met on roblox in 2020 and im still on contact with him to this day. he doesnt have a website.

99. And do you optimise the images on your website?

nope!

100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.

relieved