100 WEBMASTERS FOR QUESTIONS

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1. Please introduce yourself.: i'm hyphen-lost, or h-l for short. this is what we call a "nickname".
2. How long have you been making websites?: since the date listed in my "copyright" notice in the footer(2023).
3. And what got you into the hobby?: my mom used to run a website when she was my age! it was much more involved and even had a community surrounding it, but that's long in the past.
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: fun ones, ones with gimmicks, and things that generally make it unique. if i can come back to the site after my first visit, you've won.
5. What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?: what the heck is a "workflow"
i just make up pages as i think of them. nothing deeper than that.
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: this is one of them. there will be another when i remember what it was.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: looking at the finished product. i'll sometimes spend tens of minutes just clicking through my website with a pervading sense of satisfaction.
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: CSS, perhaps unsurprisingly. that stuff is EVIL.
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: i try to keep a generally copiable layout, but i do try to make each page look at least slightly different.
10. How confident are you with CSS?: decently so. i had to work under way worse restrictions, so this site's css is like a breath of fresh air after being trapped in nutty putty cave for a week.
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: what the heck is a dl?
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: any one of the ones i've made. i love custom html elements.
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: copy and paste a different page into it and then go from there.
14. Do you know JavaScript?: i know of javascript.
15. How about PHP?: my mom speaks of it like the devil, and from what i've seen, it deserves that reputation.
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: vaguely. going for a more "outside" theme for this version because the great outdoors is a wonderful place to be.
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: either/or. it's a balance.
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: no. yes, as long as i didn't have to pay exorbitant amounts.
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: to quote my good friend, "They're neat, but could do with some more flavor." nostalgiabaiting is so last season.
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: as long as it works, i do not care.
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: they're okay, i guess. i like button walls and think they're fun, but i don't collect many buttons for some reason.
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: see previous question. i like them!
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: i probably would do something completely different, considering that these pages are make on whims.
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: rarely. but my coding is good enough that i don't care as much.
25. What text editor do you use?: the built-in neocities one.
26. Why do you use that one?: it works, it's free, and it's immediate. and i'm lazy as hell.
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: i just host them on neocities where applicable.
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: don't know, don't care.
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: less than 100mbs, which is somewhat impressive, considering my penchant for graphics.
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: no but i probably should
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: it's a spectrum. too far at either end is awful, too close to the middle is boring. go simple or go visual, but don't go too far nor halfway.
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: i like color palettes, so sometimes. otherwise, not really.
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: never. this is a hobby project, i'll just put it down for years before picking it up again.
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: LG is whom i consider a good friend, and he has this same list of questions, so that counts, right?
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: yes! my family does and they do not really care.
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: no.
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: yes. my standards improve way too much to stick to a single design.
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: who knows? i certainly don't, i just make the thing.
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?: maybe. and i'm unemployed currently.
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: i'd like to, but it's inconvenient these days compared to instant messengers.
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: i'll link to my socials, but i don't expect anyone to actually go there. i do prefer personal websites, but i understand that social media is an opened pandora's box that cannot be closed.
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: i'm currently working on moving to stoat.chat, a fun and very good instant messenger like discord! i also have a discord but i'm looking to move away from it for. the obvious reasons.
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: i listen to every music ever all the time i love music drooling face emoji
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: i do have more than one website for individual things! no you cant have them
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: i don't like this question for being too presumptuous
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: there will always be a mask, no matter how hard you try to present your real self. i don't want to become so genuine that it ends up becoming the mask and i can't express myself any other way.
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: technically! we became friends via IGM, but me and LG became better friends because of it.
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: dude i couldn't care less with how they work, just kick mozilla in the rear to add all the GOOD features
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: making a website in the first place.
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: specializing into a niche, and commenting their code. (hypocrite)
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: what does this mean
53. Do you consider different browsers?: no.
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: firefox works well enough. i can't convince the reader of anything, but i like the fox. i might be a furry.
55. And what OS are you on?: Windows 10.
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: i hate it and should move to linux, but it works well enough for now that i'm willing to put off that move for another 2 months.
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: last i checked, they were not. good.
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: bad. unless it's music. then depends on the music.
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: they're pretty neat. i should start one.
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: what the heck is a web shrine
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: no? i try to make them "me" and since i'm a borderline schizopath they tend to end up in weird areas.
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: a destination. i think striving to make a destination where i currently stand is a stupid idea, so i just maintain this place as a hobby.
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: i'm a pixel artist! and sometimes. i don't have much confidence in my drawing skills.
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: google image search
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: not commenting my code. terrible habit.
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: don't start. if you want to anyway, then look up how to do things and use the mozilla web docs.
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: i use a system where all the baseline css is in a file, and then i hardcode specific things on each page to make it unique.
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: dunno what that is.
69. How about table-based layouts?: dunno what that is. i think my mom used one of these.
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: i just make the website man i have no idea
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: they take equal amounts of time.
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: yes. i'm not telling you where it is, though. it's very personal to me and the less people who know about it the better.
73. Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?: the content idea comes first, and the layout comes second. this is never really an issue.
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: to quote my good friend, "We actually have a word for the middle! It's intermediate."
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: only if they do things i want to ~~shamelessly copy~~ take inspiration from.
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: trial and error. and googling things i wanted to do.
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: maybe??
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: i have no thoughts on floating elements because i don't know what they are.
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: i prefer vw/vh these days. pixels are finicky but i do use them for quick and dirty work.
80. Do you have a favourite font?: no?
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: i have no idea. maybe they would do the javascript.
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: no. i should make it a hobby.
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: haha, sometimes. lookin' at you, LG.
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: the fact that it doesn't suck bad.
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: i love playing video games on their original hardware. tragically, the original hardware is worth more than my left kidney.
86. How often and for how long are you online?: yes.
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: anyone, but i do try to keep the swearing down. makes me seem more professional than i really feel.
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: what is that
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: yes! no. i should, though. could be fun.
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: one of my programmer friends explained it to me and i still have no idea what it is or how they work. maybe i'd use one for my blog if it didn't suck.
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: i used to, and then i forgot to use it. i don't care about hits these days, in fact the less hits the better. stop looking at me
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 just write it into the editor because the autocomplete is beautiful
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: haha, sometimes. haha, no
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: haha, sometimes. yes, i have, but that was a scratch game so bad that i felt i had tarnished my honor.
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: i would at the very least leave an archive with a notice saying it wasn't updated anymore. internet preservation is something i'm interested in, my mom having been the first generation to use it. there's a lot she's lost just because those servers are gone.
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: i'd prefer not to write too much about myself, but things tend to slip out anyway.
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: i'd rather not say. choosing favorites is bad for business.
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: hell (if i k)no(w)
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: a little confused. what's a webmaster, exactly