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100 webmaster questions

1. Please introduce yourself.: I'm the webmaster of ignisnet. You'll come to get to know me more throughout the site.
2. How long have you been making websites?: Since I was 9 years old. Not consistently, but thats when i started learning.
3. And what got you into the hobby?: My computer science teacher said I might find it as a good way to express myself. But recently I got back into it because I started to despise social media more and more.
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: The indie web is about expression, yet a worrying amount of sites are trying too hard to conform to a label. I enjoy sites that are chaotic, which aren't afraid of showing the complexity of their personalities.
5. What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?: Honestly, I struggle with this. My workflow might be browsing other websites for hours, go on walks, sketching on paper, sketching on figma, or just coding and seeing what I can do.
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: I quite like lambchapel. While you will see many inspired pieces on this site from them, I do not claim to be involved with them. I may not share their ideologies.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: The suffering.
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: Coming up with ideas that someone hasn't already done before better.
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: I want to commit to a layout, but as you can see, I just cant.
10. How confident are you with CSS?: Quite confident to do what I want it to do.
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: We'll see.
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: Has to be marquee (RIP)
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: Enter an emotionally sensitive state.
14. Do you know JavaScript?: Unfortunately yes.
15. How about PHP?: Yes.
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: As I said before, no. I try to be gothic most of the time, but I do not stick to it.
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: Content is more important to me, but if the delivery doesn't do the content justice, what is the point?
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: I do.
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: I love them. I like it when they do not have to mention "nostalgia" to be nostalgic even more.
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: Yes it is valid, at least when I'm writing this.
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: I like them.
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: Depends. I think it's quite sad that people made them political, but that is not to say I won't be doing the same.
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: I'm always starting over again.
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: All the time.
25. What text editor do you use?: Zed, Neovim, and nano when I'm lazy.
26. Why do you use that one?: I like zed because it doesn't have the weird visual bloat vscode has, while still being functional. I like neovim because I don't need a WM/DE to run it. Nano when I use ssh on my server.
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: On my server.
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: Well, I do not use either, but I think nekoweb is superior. I disagree with the AI love the neocities monarch has.
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: Less than 30mb. But it will grow.
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: Yes, are they up to date? No.
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: both.
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: No I do not.
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: I have been discouraged, and bored, but I never thought about abandoning this.
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: I do not, I would like to make some.
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: Some do.
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: Currently I work on it on a daily basis. But I do not touch it when I have something I like. I do update the content often.
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: It varies honestly.
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: Me-focused. I tried to obsess over one hobby or character, I just cant.
39. Do you do web design professionally?: I do not.
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: I wouldn't. I am a mere student.
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: Yes.
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: I wish I could get rid of it. However, it would socially isolate me.
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: I tried hosting my own matrix instance. But I think the protocol and the clients need a lot of maturing to be something I can be comfortable using. I am sticking to IRC and Discord for the meanwhile.
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: Depends on what page I'm working on. Some of my favorites: MALICE MIZER, Slowdive, Whirr, Panchiko, Sewerslvt (Cynthoni).
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: I have one website, I should split some of my subdomains honestly.
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?: I try to be as real as possible. You can get a really good profile of who I am as a person, but I will not reveal my identity.
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: No, not yet.
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: I'm satisfied.
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: Reliance on JavaScript. At least frameworks.
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: Outside of web-dev.. Critical thinking is on it's way to being extinct.
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: I try to use semantic HTML, I fail quite often. Do not look for order in my site.
53. Do you consider different browsers?: I mainly optimise for Firefox. I do not care for Chromium browsers.
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: I use Librewolf. Sometimes it is a pain in the ass, but it does most of your "security practices" for you. And after setting it up, it works pretty consistently. It is also not behind some corporate funding.
55. And what OS are you on?: CachyOS and macOS.
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: I have strong opinions against Windows. I have been using GNU/Linux (though I also dislike GNU) for 8 years now.
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: No. I do not think the web needs to be friendly for mobile devices. We have native apps for those.
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: I understand the security concerns behind it. I do like it when it's used for friendly purposes.
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: Not as of right now. I might join one sometime.
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: I will be making some. We'll see what I like to see when I start researching.
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: They most definitely are cliche, in a niche way.
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: My ideal website is a website where the webmaster and the visitor have a bond that only exists for the duration of a visit. No data collection, no identity tracking. You look at my work, I am happy. You don't visit my website? Ok, I don't know you exist.
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: No. I am envious of people who are artistically talented.
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: Pinterest, other personal sites.
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: Procrastination.
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: Be comfortable with exploring who you are.
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: I try to keep it all in CSS.
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: I have no opinion on them.
69. How about table-based layouts?: I also have no opinion on them.
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: I do not subscribe to these ideas, I will use what I like.
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: Mostly the CSS.
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: I have, I just start with plain HTML. Based on my content, I then decide on the CSS.
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 need to make layouts... I use eleventy yet I do not utilise its power.
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: I thought I was advanced, but seeing the creativity in others, I believe I am a beginner.
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: Yes.
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: I have an HTML4 for dummies book.
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: Sometimes, but they break on other devices, so I try not to.
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: No opinion.
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: I am embarassed to admit I use vh.
80. Do you have a favourite font?: Papyrus.
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: I might, but I don't see why I would do that.
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: Almost every day.
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: I do. If my visitors bookmark my site, I'd be quite happy.
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: I just hope they are impressed with something.
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: I like retro tech, single-purpose devices, coding, random protocols, operating systems... The whole tech diaspora.
86. How often and for how long are you online?: Too often and for too long.
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: Someone.
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: I was. Not anymore.
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 do code in Java, Rust, Python, Go, and R.
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: I am using Eleventy. I like the thought, sometimes it feels a bit weird to use.
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: No, I do not want to track anything.
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: I do not.
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 prepare stuff in markdown when it's text based, otherwise usually in-editor.
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: I don't think I am cool. I have been told by some people that I am cool.
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: Yes, I have.
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: No, it'd stay up as long as my server is up. It doesn't take much resources to upkeep.
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: You might say I reveal a lot, or nothing.
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: No, and they don't.
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: Yes, with the infamous webp. (I should find other ways.)
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: I feel like I just answered 100 questions.