Rose answers web most searched questions on wired (wip)

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1. Please introduce yourself.: Rose, sweetheartmemory’s webmistress!
2. How long have you been making websites?: I’ve been on the indie web since 2022. My first introduction to personal website making was making carrds in 2019.
3. And what got you into the hobby?: Sadly it was kinstagram for carrds and rentries. For actual html/css coding, it was Tommy on neocities! @gothiclolita
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: Ones with lots of writing and commentary, both of which I’m kinda bad at. That’s why I’m always in awe when others can so beautifully articulate their opinions and thoughts.
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 can only work when I’m motivated so most of my pages are spur of the moment
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: If I were to pick one it would be the dreadromantic! I just love everything from the website to their wardrobe. To find inspiration, I usually search up old websites or pictures and collages I like.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: Decorating said website
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: Finishing things I start
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: I sometimes wish that all my pages were the same with like iframe links but I physically cannot I would go insane.
10. How confident are you with CSS?: 60% I think
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: No…
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: I know it’s super outdated, but you would have to neuralize me to prevent me from using font styles.
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: div class = container or some badly misspelled version of it. The rest is in Gods hands.
14. Do you know JavaScript?: No, but seriously I should learn so I can flex on my youngest brother who also codes (not in web design). I can understand the basics to run some on my website.
15. How about PHP?: I have no idea
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: Yes. But I try to play with the limited color palettes that I use
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: Design… Mainly because 90% of the time I cringe at what I write and I fear oversharing, and I’m also not that big into media even though I watch a lot of movies and shows I’m not that attached to any of them to make shrines and stuff. Scatch that this is off the record but I just had a dream I was in a poto play and I was Christine that was crazy. Wrote all this yesterday but I’m editing the next day in the morning so you get this information.
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: I don’t but if sweetheartmemory.vamp is a thing that would probably be it
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: Except for sites that are obvious rips of other sites I don’t see that bad thing about sites that are heavily nostalgia leaning. I think having more people making websites is already such a plus no matter if it’s nostalgia farming or not
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: As long as it doesn’t look atrocious other devices.
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: Do whatever you want. I don’t think I have a strong opinion for or against it
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: They’re cool. I find a lot of cool websites from button walls
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: Not really. I like my website, but sometimes I get the itch to make a pink and black theme. I love pinks with greys and blacks
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: Visually? No. Content wise, I envy sites that are so expressive! I aspire to be like them
25. What text editor do you use?: VS code. If it’s not a big project I just use neocities editor.
26. Why do you use that one?: Because brackets kinda sucked for me
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: I think my site is like 80% hosted locally now. Still in the catbox moving process
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: I'm not that well immersed in both communities so I don’t know. I have a nekoweb and I kinda don’t like how there isn’t a feed because I love seeing posts and comments and stuff here.
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: Neocities says I'm only using 12.3% of my space
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: No… if neocities disappears one day it’s over for me. I do love talking screenshots of my site so I have a lot of them
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: They can both be pleasing to the eye so I can't choose.
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: Black, red, white, greys. It’s just the colors that I love the most. Before, it was a lot of muted browns and yellows. I’m not opposed to change, but it comes naturally as opposed to manufactured to appear a certain way
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: All the time, but still I love web design so I just can’t!
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: Solitary hobby I fear
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: I haven’t explicitly showed anyone my site, but my brothers know that I code. Almost got one into neocities.
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: Over the summer it was everyday, now it’s every week if I have the time
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: I don’t. I think having an aesthetic takes away the pain of the thinking of how the next page is going to be because it’s the same color palette but a different layout
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: hobby/me 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?: If I said to anyone at work irl that I did web design 100% they would put me to work for no pay.
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: When applying to webrings and that’s about it. Email me!
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: I don’t have social media. I have a Pinterest if you can find it
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: I don’t use discord. I used it periodically a couple years back and it was too complicated for me. I would rather just talk via messages or whatsapp for family. I do get the appeal though.
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: I’m listening to music almost all the time. My music taste is broad so it could be literally anything
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: Only one
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: I would like to share more of my interests! Maybe a page for plants and flowers. For now it’s mostly like 2-4 topics
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: This is how I am lol. My interests, taste in music, diary entires, personality are all who I am. If I were to construct an online persona, I would have been 100% cooler than I am now. Probably won’t be on neocities to do that anyway. Granted in my time on neocities since I was like 16, I have changed a bit identity wise.
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: Not yet! But there are a lot of friendly people here
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: I’m not sure. I haven’t had time to catch up on new html and ccs updates unfortunately
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: Please!!! When you are overlaying images have them in the div so that it doesn’t cover everything the moment you switch to a smaller screen.
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: Pointer events to none on images near links
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: Back when I started learning I did. Learn the rules to break them
53. Do you consider different browsers?: I’ve heard good things about firefox
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: I don’t have any but don’t use safari to view sites.
55. And what OS are you on?: Windows and chrome. I use internet explorer explorer sometimes when google starts tweaking
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: I just happen to use it.
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: They are readable.. i wouldn’t say friendly
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: I love autoplay, but I would scare myself sometimes when opening my site so I stopped. Like I can’t imagine someone opening your site in a quiet classroom and gracing everyone with music.
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: I love them! Especially ones around hobbies and identities.
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: Unfinished and unstarted ones. I really want to work on my Takarazuka one
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: I don’t think so…
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: Every page is like a rabbit whole filled with so much content. I love sites that don’t have every single page spelled out on their nav bar. Makes it more fun to explore
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: I would love to add more of my art to pages. My about me has art drawn by me
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: I love scripted! Other than than I get most my assets from rentries.
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: Positing absolute after any minor inconvenience
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: Have fun during your beginner stages! Those are the days when I had the most fun coding.
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: I make new css for every page I code
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: They’re complicated for me
69. How about table-based layouts?: I use a lot of archaic elements but I would never stoop that low
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: I’ve tried the whole nav bar, updates column, intro column and staus cafe column and buttons thing but I just can’t. My recent homepage is the closest I can get to pages like that
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.: I don’t think that I have
73. Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?: Not really. I sometimes reuse layouts
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: I think I’m still like an advanced beginner if that’s even a word
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: When I was first learning how to make sites. I almost never do now
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: Mostly youtube html and css help websites
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: All the time
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: I use them then fail miserably
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: px for the win
80. Do you have a favourite font?: The font I use on my homepage and webmistress page. The bold version has that weird color changing thing which is annoying or cool depending on what I want it to do
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: It depends on the content, but generally no
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: I do about once a week.
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: I used to have so many bookmarks of old sozai sites before my old computer gave up on me. I don’t bookmark personal sites. I check in with sites when i remember to or when I see their updates. I can’t really stop others from bookmarking my site. In a way my hours spent coding wasn’t in vain then
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: Not sure.. my little doilie animations because I get mesmerized myself
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: I don’t collect tech
86. How often and for how long are you online?: I come on neocities daily to check what people are up to
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: Ive never thought of that… uhhh people who love j fashion and music? To be honest though, I don’t think my website has one because people with all different kinds of websites follow me
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: Nope
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: No but I need to one day to ratio my bother
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: I have, but I’ve never used one
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: No because then I would be constantly checking
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: I don’t. The only social places I’m on when I’m online is pinterest, neocities and youtube
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?: Notes app
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: I guess so per my guestbook messages
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: I love my old work. I don’t think I’ve deleted everything before... more like my site slowly morphed into what it is today
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: I guess I would leave an archive.
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: I hope not. People my age share way more on social media than I do. Like having your uni name and hometown in your ig bio is a bit crazy lol
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: Sadly I don’t have any lol. If I did I would 100% force them to make a site or make one for them
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: I’ve been a fan of dithering images lately. Most of my images go through gif makers and are heavily edited which ruins the quality a bit
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: Did this to take a break from studying. Back to studying for me lol.