FAQ
100 questions for webmasters !! ★
100 Questions for Webmasters
1. Please introduce yourself.
I'm Soy of course ! Your very own God !! I'm learning CSS, HTML, js, etc. !
2. How long have you been making websites?
I started looking into it in 2015. Simple times !
3. And what got you into the hobby?
I had a friend who coded a cool looking site, I saw it & thought "Wtf I should do that"
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?
Mainly personal sites by gamedevs !
5. What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?
It basically consists of me googling the same thing 800 times & then getting pissed off, crying, & sometimes giving up |D
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.
NomnomNami, & Petra ! I use templates by Nami too since making something from scratch makes my brain into a smoothie ... I can edit preexisting code though.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?
Other people looking at the finished product |D
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?
AAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?
I've currently got 5 fully different ones. XD
10. How confident are you with CSS?
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?
I miggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggght. UwU
12. What is your favourite HTML element?
The fucking bottom feeder !!!
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?
14. Do you know JavaScript?
15. How about PHP?
I'm so bad at this one ....
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?
Purpieellowwwwww ! I don't even like purple or yellow but it's my signature colors |D
17. Are you more focused on content or design?
..... Design? I thinkk...
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?
No & No XD I don't have that kind of money lol
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?
Uwaaaaaaaa I LOVE THEM QuQ
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?
I love them so much but I personally won't make for myself, I'm a happy nobody !
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?
They're the best ! When I'm looking at a new site I typically gravitate towards their links immediately |D Sharing eachothers sites is helping eachother out !
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?
I'd make it the same colors but I don't think I'd use a template. UwU
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?
.....what's this? Green eyes and a monster? Both? At once? I'm putting this mirror far over there !
25. What text editor do you use?
26. Why do you use that one?
I'm immediately a fan since it has previews for hexcodes -
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?
I've used both , I find NeoCities has a better community !!
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?
I've currently ued 6% of my space ...
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?
Yes ! Can't lose my stuff !
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?
I love a lot of kinds of websites ! I think coding is an art & everyone does it differently, it's awesome !
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?
~ UwU Purpie & Yeluuuuu, it started as subconscious but it took over XD
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?
NO ???? NOOOOOO !!!!!!!!! I love coding !!
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?
Solitary |D I've never been someone to be very talkative to others ;w;
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?
No !!!! My mom knows I have a site, but I don't let her know my URL |D
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?
I'll keep it like this since I really like it !
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?
39. Do you do web design professionally?
OH HEAVENS NO. Heavens. HEAVENS.
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?
No lol I'd have to refund everyone when I fuck up their sites |D
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?
No ahaha but I'd totally email someone ... if I had their email. XD
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?
Yes !!!!! I'm a whore & use mostly every social lol (Not X though LOL I'd be so embarrassed if I used X |D)
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?
I use Discord to talk to my boyfriend !! I have a few friends added but don't really message anyone else. ;;w;;
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?
Hm ... ASMR or game OSTs XD
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?
I have a NekoWeb but I'm thinking about probably deleting it soon !
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?
It's got everything I do on it ! ;w;
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?
WTF ? You calling me a false God !?!?! I am 100% real whether you believe in me or not !!!
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?
No haha ! I'm pretty antisocial -
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?
Yes, there's a lot that you can do with it !!
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?
I'm gonna be basic & say playing music on pages with autoplay or hidden that you can't turn off. I don't want to listen to this ! :(
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?
I think I usually do pretty generic. |D
53. Do you consider different browsers?
Sometimes ! I use Firefox so most things are pretty world rounded !!
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?
I'm not much of a fan, but I don't change it unless upgrading usually ...
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?
I'm closing the tab. Just so you know.
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?
I'm not in any , but I think I understand a bit of what they are ... I'm not really a community-able person ... everyone I know says I'm hard to talk to anyway ... ;w;
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?
Ah, no ! I'm not sure if I fully understand them ... not to mention I kind of think they're for cool people to use on their cool sites. |D
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?
Mm, I used a template, so yes, I think so !
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?
I wish I could make my sidebar contents scroll then stick at the end ... so hard to figure it out. |D JavaScript is mean
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?
I draw , I don't fully consider myself an artist , I drew some of them but a lot of it is F2U stuff from around the web.
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?
break break break break break break break break break break break break instead of position: place; XD
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?
I do some of both ? I don't really know how else to |D
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?
69. How about table-based layouts?
I love them !!!!!! I use tables a lot !!!!!!!!!!!
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?
Yeah, I like them !! I'm not really a user but I love sites that are !!!!!!!
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?
Both since I code like butt. |D
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.
Yeah ! On my first site I had a secret HTML-only page for throwing down on crude poetry XD
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 mean ... I do that sometimes ... |D
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?
Beginner ! Even though I've been around longer than everyone better than me |D
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?
Yes ! I want to understand it ! I'm just stoopid |D
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?
Yes --------- ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
78. Thoughts on floating elements?
Love them ! I might add them tbh ,,, after this .... or someday !!
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?
px usually but rarely I do use % !
80. Do you have a favourite font?
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?
Maybe. |D I would work it by not doing much. |D
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?
I do !!!!!!! I don't think anyone would do that, lol !
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?
The fact that this disaster made anything that looks any way. XD
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?
I have ... game systems ... an Android phone ... ummmmmm ;u;
86. How often and for how long are you online?
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?
ANYONE pls don't leave me alone ---
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?
A lot ! I'm bad at it though lol
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 make games with Ren'Py, but now I do TyranoBuilder. XD I do sometimes mess with TyranoScripter though, I even bought the premium upgrade XD
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?
I love them but I don't use them very well LOL XD
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?
Yes because it's pretty ;;;;;;w;;;;;;;
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?
A bit ! Usually Krita-Artists |D I want to make my own soon but idk who would post to it lol
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?
Yes !!!!!!!!!!! & yes, everything old !!!!!
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?
I'm blabbery so I don't think I'm or ever was mysterious at all. |D
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?
I don't know anyone who has NeoCity |D
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?
Sometimes !!! I should do it to all of them soon =w=
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.
My keyboard requires actual strain to use so my fingers are bleeding. XD
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6/23/2026