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Questions by mouseling

1. Please introduce yourself.: my name's gabriel, i'm 17 years old, and i'm a pangender trans guy with a passion for art and many other things :]
2. How long have you been making websites?: technically only since last year (2024), but i had a couple of attempts in earlier years.
3. And what got you into the hobby?: looking at other people's personal website and getting incredibly inspired by them
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: personal blogs, art focused sites, and fansites
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 make shit up on the spot and hope that it works LMFAO
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: Ballonlea has been my biggest inspo from the very beginning!
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: i'm a big fan of the creative freedom i have and just being able to say/do whatever without the anxiety of possibly being judged
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: being consistent with updates and finishing work-in-progress stuff
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: i try to have a bit of variety so (almost) every click feels like an adventure :]
10. How confident are you with CSS?: i'd say i'm pretty confident
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: never used it before, so no
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: < img >
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: add the most important elements like the header, body/main content area and footer and then style everything in css before adding anything else
14. Do you know JavaScript?: barely
15. How about PHP?: nope
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: teto
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: uhhhh both
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: i don't got that kinda money
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: i think they're neat
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: who care
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: i love them everyone should make them
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: i don't see any issue with them personally
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: i'd probably try something brand new, but take some inspiration from what i have currently
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: very much so but i try my hardest to stay confident in my own, even if i'm not as skilled or knowledgeable as others
25. What text editor do you use?: liveweave
26. Why do you use that one?: no particular reason
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: i host all of my images on filegarden since i don't wanna clog up file space on my neocities
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: i think that it's stupid and you should just use whatever host you prefer. it doesn't matter. i just prefer neocities cuz i feel like there's more of an emphasis on community
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: it says 1.61 MB LMFAO that's so little
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: yes :3
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: visual sites, i really like seeing how cool people make them look
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: i use mostly different shades of red cuz it's my favorite
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: nope, even if i feel demotivated sometimes i wanna keep my site up forever :]
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: online, yes!
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: my therapist and school counselor lol
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: pretty muuch regularly
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: not really, i sorta just add onto it as time goes on
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: i'd say it's both me and my hobbies focused
39. Do you do web design professionally?: no
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: i think it'd be much less fun if i did. i don't have a job yet but i wanna make money off of my art somehow
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: no LOOLLL
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: if i could i would stop using all social media permanently but so many artists i love are only on there. i don't use them much outside of just posting and looking at art. my site exists as an escape and distraction from the hell that is The Current State Of Social Media
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: discord has been my main method of socializing for almost a decade and i don't intend to stop unless it completely goes under
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: VOCALOOOOID (mainly)
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: I only have this site + another one that's for a fangame I'm helping my friend make
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: this site is a visual projection of my brain and my brain is never focused on one thing
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: everything of me everywhere online, especially here, is my genuine self, no questions asked
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?
53. Do you consider different browsers?
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.
55. And what OS are you on?
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?
64. What are your favourite resource sites?
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?
69. How about table-based layouts?
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.
73. Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?
78. Thoughts on floating elements?
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?
80. Do you have a favourite font?
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?
86. How often and for how long are you online?
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?
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?
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.