1. Please introduce yourself.
My Name is Celine or Kaja (sometimes Spelt Katja.)
2. How long have you been making websites?
Only for a Few Months.
3. And what got you into the hobby?
Well Actually I was into making Webpages anyways, I Made lots of Carrds and Rentries (I Still Do make Rentries!) But I Wanted to try my hand at Making an Actual Page from the ground up. I First dipped my Hands into CSS, Through Bearblog, on IPad. Probably the Biggest Mistake You could make lowkey since Apple does not let you Inspect Any elements.
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?
my Own. Serious Answer! I Love Colorful and Expressive Sites, I Also like Sites that are Easy On The Eyes.
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 Don't really Have a Workflow Sadly If I get an idea I Have to Code that Idea out before it goes Away. At Best I Will put down a Shell and even that will be Subject to change.
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.
Sort of Scary but Before I Joined Neocities, I Had liked an Older Verison of the Nitro+Chiral Site & wanted to Make something similar. While Looking through Pinterest and Scrolling on Neocities "Special Sauce" Page, I Really Enjoyed FairyGore, Burgeritchi, Bachira, Doujincel, & Aborbs.
I Also Will say I Think it is Obvious I Took some inspiration from Swirl, and also I Get inspired by Just about Every Unique looking Site I See.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?
I Enjoy searching for Resources, That is my favorite part. It's Weird I Know but I love looking for new patterns and pixels to decorate my pages with. I Have to keep it Fresh. I Also think making the Base Layout is fun along with Playing with Grids
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?
CSS GRIDS. & Sometimes Flex
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?
You be the Judge. I Believe each page Layout are very Different from Each Other; but If You Think they seem the Same, Tell me! I'd like to Know.
10. How confident are you with CSS?
Would you Believe me if I Said I'm not very Confident with it? I Go through Highs and Lows when it comes to my Coding Skills, But I Think at Best I'm rather mediocre at it. I'm Good Enough to get by.
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?
Is there a Difference Between <dl> & <ol>? If I Needed to Use <dl>, It Seems like You would Use it the same way You Would <ol>.
12. What is your favourite HTML element?
"U" in "Favourite" ohhh You're from Across the Pond. I Love Marquees even if it is Deprecated. I Love my Deprecated Tags and I Don't Think I'll stop using it... It's Very Addictive.
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?
Pray and Hope it Works seriously. You Think of a Good Layout, You make the Base, You Start Styling and then Everything Breaks somehow.
14. Do you know JavaScript?
No, But I Plan on Learning Soon.
15. How about PHP?
I Fear I do not but Like with JavaScript I Hope to learn about it soon.
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?
Not Always.
17. Are you more focused on content or design?
I Hope I'm focused on Both. Something Beautiful You can read and Click around on.
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?
If I Ever get a Job, Yes that would be Wonderful.
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?
I Don't think much of them. For me it Depends, What kind of "retro" are you Referring to?
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?
Girl i Don't Even wanna Check I Did once and I Got 50 errors and It made me Emotional
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?
I Think they're Beautiful.
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?
Really Awesome as it Provides a way for Smaller, Lesser known sites to get noticed, but also It Can get Load Heavy if it's too Many.
...Also Very Confusing if there's no ToolTip Telling you What's What.
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?
Honestly I Don't know. I Would probably try to be different, But Honestly I'm a Creature of Habit, So I May end of with a similar layout and Design.
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?
It's Not Healthy to be Jealous or Envious. That Being said, Sometimes I Am. But it's not really a Hateful Envy... It's more of a "Wow! I Need to get better." sort of Envy. the Kind that Pushes you forward and Not Hold you back.
25. What text editor do you use?
I Have Over 9 Thousand Updates on my Neocities Profile it's not hard to Guess I Use the In-Site Editor even though it is Dogwater
26. Why do you use that one?
Cuz we Plain Stupid 💔
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?
See Answer 18. No Job = Can't Get Storage. So I Use Postimage. Please don't use Catbox for File hosting for your websites I Beg
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?
I Honestly Didn;t know there was a Debate and Honestly I Really don't care for it.
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?
ALMOSTY 2MB IM REALLY SCARED!
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?
I Probably should but No.
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?
Both is Fine I will just say Sometimes too simple and too visually complex can be bad. Whatever
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?
Half & Half, I Actually do it On Purpose (sometimes), The Primary Colors of the Site are Pink, Blue, Green, and Orange. Very Pastel. But I Do try not to Overuse the same color or Pattern, as it Will look uninteresting to me or Others.
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?
I've thought but Procrastinating, but not Quitting. Prumano is Forever! It Says so on the main page!!
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?
I Mostly have rentry friends, and Only one friend of Mine has a Website on here.
If Anyone would like to be Friends, You can always send a Message to My Atabook or Gmail: PuddingDevourer. Please be Aware I'm very slow at Answering Anything!!
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?
Just Family.
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?
Whenever I Can
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?
I Don't Change site layouts if I Feel Proud of them, if I Do please see it as Impulsive
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?
I Don't Knoowwwwww
Serious Answer: I Don't Knowwwwwww
39. Do you do web design professionally?
No... I Don't think I'll Ever do such a Thing, Unless it's a Side Hustle.
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?
I Don't Have one, Unless you Consider Rentry commissions "A Job"
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?
No
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?
I have Social Media outside of my Website But Honestly I've been considering Blocking and Deleting everything and Just Work here. But Then Again I Need twitter to Just Talk about Nothing
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. Sooometimes.
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?
Anita Baker, Ludacris, SWV, Brandy, Frenesi, Minnie Riperton. Along with many unlisted ones.
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?
I Only have One Site!!!!
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?
I Keep Many Topics actually I'm not sure. It feels like Many Topics.
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?
This is such a Interesting Question because I Don't think I've ever had a "Persona" online. All of it is Me and I Don't See any benefit from Online Personas anyway.
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?
No.
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?
I'd say so, I Hope to see new Features that Work Well with Mobile, or may even Allow mobile Users to see My ScrollBars...
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?
The same practices I Preach for Rentry Users: MAKE YOUR SITE ACCESSIBLE! Always be Mindful of how your site looks on both Mobile on Desktop!! Please Don't use Fonts that are Extremely Pixelated and Hard to See! Make Colors easy on the Eyes! Please! Please!!!
Also Don't Use catbox. And Please Don't use tables for Layouts.
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?
Let's add more Alt Texts and ToolTips. Those are really nice along with Custom-Made Borders.
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?
I Used to use a Lot of Divs, They're Extremely useful but Damn Please Let's use Semantic Tags! I've fallen in love with them and I can Actually See What's WHat! My layout still uses a lot of DIVs but I'm Trying to get away from that. #Healing #LetsHealTogether
53. Do you consider different browsers?
I'm Going to be Honest I've never Looked at my site Outside of Safari and Edge. Firefox, Chrome, & Linux Users... How does it Look to You? Ugly? Ugly? Uuugly..?
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.
Would not Wish Using Microsoft's Anything on Anyone.
55. And what OS are you on?
Please I'm a Code Baby I don't know. Im on a HP Windows 10 Home please Don't kill me.
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?
I'm using the Scraps that I Was Given. I Don't have a Strong Opinion on it.
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?
Yes Actually you zoom out just a little Bit and You can see the whole site And Read it too. It was Really Surprising to me Since I Was convinced it wouldn't Be mobile-friendly but at least Tablet-Friendly but Hey. Who am I to complain
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?
This is one of the Few Questions I Have a strong Opinion On. Autoplay is Fine until You're out in public and you Hear a fucking MIDI play at full blast and your Computer wasn't even up that Loud. I'm Proposing a INTERNET LAW where if you have an Autoplayer you HAVE to have a Landing Page warning people about it. The Way I Have been Scared half to DEATH because of a SONG.
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?
Wonderful Creations please keep making Webrings! I'm only inna few Rings which is Sad because I Would like to be in some. Please. Let me in
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?
None at the Moment but I Want to Change that. I Plan on Making a Shrine #Soon 🔜 for Person of Interest or Hetalia. I'll Probably Link it on my "About" page which needs to be Reworked Badly.
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?
Most Likely, Yes.
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?
I Don't Have an "Ideal" Site. There are too many Styles that Influence and Inspire my work, So I Can't just say One Thing is my Ultimate Goal. The Ideal is Working and Improving what I Already Have.
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?
I Wish! But no.
64. What are your favourite resource sites?
Tumblr, Rentry sites like /Depressive, Mode, Border, & Madonna, Along with Fancy Parts, Fool Lovers, and Tora7.ciao.
Honorable Mention: https://cupcakeipsum.com/. I ALso have a Hoard of Pixels I Use as well.
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?
using Marquees.
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?
Youtube is the Place where you get Help for the Technical Side of coding and The technical side alone. You'll have to go to the Coding bible (W3School) to learn how to Truly customize your Site 😅
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?
If you open up Prumano's Code You Will see a Big Block of CSS no I Don't use External Styling I Only Used it for My Blog Logs. That's It.
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?
Nothing please Don't use that
69. How about table-based layouts?
Girl Don't use tables eithers Omg. I'm not fond of them
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?
Personally I Don't Care for Any of that, I Use however many Colums are Needed to make the layout Work.
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.
No Honestly I Really like to add and customize things So I Don't see this happening Any time soon.
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 Make Layouts when I Feel like a page needs to be Revamp.
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?
Beginner Honestly
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?
Only if you have something I Find Interesting / Something I'd Like to figure out how to do Myself.