100 Questions

1. Please introduce yourself.: Hi I'm pearli, the owner of jirachis. i've been in a relationship for almost 3 years. But I like sleeping all day and playing on my ps2
2. How long have you been making websites?: almost 6 years ;-;
3. And what got you into the hobby?: Tiktok during quarantine honestly. I needed something to do.
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: Blogging
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 make a blueprint of how i want the webpage to look in my sketchbook. Then i kind of fiddle with the html till it looks like how i want it to look.
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: There is no link to my biggest inspo since they deleted their website but it was Beriimimi.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: Adding my interests to the page
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: Layouts
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: I try to keep the same layout now anyways lol
10. How confident are you with CSS?: 6/10 i dont think i can do anything major with it
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: yes :)
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: <br> they look so silly.
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: Give it a title and background
14. Do you know JavaScript?: not really
15. How about PHP?
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: yeah! Black, Purple, and Yellows are what i should stick too lol
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: Content
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: I dont own a domain name. I wouldnt ever want to. Feels less of a simple website if i lose my .org lol
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: I like them, I want to transition to a more retro style lol
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: idk how to even check html validity tbh
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: I fucking love them. Have you seen my graphics page?
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: Beautiful
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: Probably a different name away from the pokemon theme but content wise pretty similar
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: Not really.
25. What text editor do you use?: Notepad++
26. Why do you use that one?: simple-ist for me to use
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: I host them on neocities
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: no opinion
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: like 5%
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: yeah on my puter
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: Simple like my website. Its very oversimulating for my brain and senses. Idk where to look half the time.
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: yeah. i have to on purpose because my brain goes "Oh this looks good!" and then it doesn't
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: Nah, I'm too invested already
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: Solitary, i have a lot of webneighbors. but none i really talk to
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: A few. Not many
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: I try to update at least every week
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: Yeah my website has changed a lot
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: more me focused
39. Do you do web design professionally?: nah not currently, hopefully soon idk
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: N/A I'm a student
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: For school yeah
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: I do use 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?
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?
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.