100 questions for webmasters

made by mouseling

1. Please introduce yourself.: Internet alias is Dusky.
2. How long have you been making websites?: Created my first site in October 2023.
3. And what got you into the hobby?: A friend recommended neocities, which led to the creation of duskytel 1.0.
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: I like websites with jaded webmasters with html/css pet peeves so I can learn from them.
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 find a category I want to add and adjust from there: content first -> layout later.
6. Please link your biggest inspirations.: My friends.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: Creating cool effects with CSS.
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: CSS.
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: Overall it's the same. If not, I follow a mental outline for what would navigate well.
10. How confident are you with CSS?: I can make a functional website with it.
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: Yes.
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: <hr> is a guilty pleasure.
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: Find the purpose -> draw a general layout on paper
14. Do you know JavaScript?: A little.
15. How about PHP?: A little more.
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: Yes (two).
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: Both but quality of design is probably better than what I write.
18. Do you own a domain name? ~~If not, would you ever want to?~~: Yes.
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: I think they are cute, but some sacrifice usability for "the look".
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: I try.
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: I don't use them right now, but I don't mind seeing them if they aren't eyebleeding colors.
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: I would personally put them on another page if there are animations.
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: I would make a similar website (for hobbies) but add code comments for myself.
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: No.
25. What text editor do you use?: VS Code
26. Why do you use that one?: I like the extensions.
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: Web server.
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: I don't care.
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: less than 100 mb.
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: Always.
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: I typically prefer simple websites.
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: Yes, I use variables for every text/div color.
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? ~~Why?~~: No.
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: No webmaster friends.
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: Yes.
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: One big update a year with blog updates every now and again.
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: I've changed the overall design a couple times due to my preferences changing.
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: Hobby-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've considered it for commission work.
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: No.
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: Yes.
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: Instant messengers are best for 1-1 messaging and receiving announcements in bigger groups.
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: Yes, I listen to anything I'm into at the moment.
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: I keep this website for everything personal, and a separate website for portfolio work.
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: Many.
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: It's impossible to present my real self in a public space but I don't try to create a persona. I keep myself private on this site.
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: No.
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: Yes but it could be more clean
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: I don't like absolute positioning.
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: I always add links that redirect back to the parent/index html, something I like seeing on other sites as well when I'm navigating.
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: Probably not as much as I should.; update: I'm working on it..
53. Do you consider different browsers?: I test my website on Firefox and Safari.
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: Firefox because it's the best.
55. And what OS are you on?: MacOS.
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: It works for my needs.
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: Yes, but it's not the best for reading longer paragraphs.
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: :(
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: I've seen them around but I don't really know what they are.
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: Kind of. I like to see shrines that are less of a dictionary and include more opinions, especially for topics that are well known.
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: I take inspiration from other personal websites, so it could be considered cliche.
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: I'm striving for a website that can survive any aspect ratio.
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: Yes. Everything on this website is photographed/drawn by me unless otherwise credited.
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: Experimenting in my files and forgetting to delete code that was scrapped.
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: Write down comments in your code.
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: I keep it all in .css files, but some relics of hard coded styling probably survived in my older files.
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: It's deprecated, shouldn't be used.
69. How about table-based layouts?: Also deprecated.
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: I think my layout is three-columns but I didn't think of it that way when I was making the site. My opinion is that thinking this way could potentially be limiting to what a website can be.
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: CSS.
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: No, custom fonts make it easier to read anyways.
73. Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?: I don't make layouts unless I have a vision for the content I want to put on the website.
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: Intermediate.
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: I check sometimes.
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: W3schools and looking at source code of other websites.
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: No.
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: Not the best but I'm guilty of using it...
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: I default to rem.
80. Do you have a favourite font?: I have a soft spot for Gaegu but Gulim is easier to read.
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: I would create a website for someone, not with.
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: Not very often, I usually go out of my way to find new websites when I'm editing my own website.
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: I bookmark others' websites if I like what they have to say. My jaw would drop if someone bookmarked mine.
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: The effort.
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: I have a small collection of cd players, laptops, consoles.
86. How often and for how long are you online?: Too much.
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: Myself.
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: Yes, but not enough to use it.
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: Yes. I've done sql database stuff with php.
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: I think people who use them are cool. I downloaded 11ty but I didn't get very far.
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: I used to, but it was more of a gimmick than anything.
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: No.
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?: I write it into the editor, but sometimes I'll paste writing that hasn't been published.
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: I'm not answering this question.
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: Sometimes, but I delete old things usually out of privacy/accessibility concerns.
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: I would keep an archive.
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: I reveal myself through my writing, but I don't go out of my way to talk about myself.
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: I don't have online friends.
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: Yes.
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: I need to use semantic html..