Answering the webmaster questionnaire

First saw it at Tuesday's place, created by MOUSEcky

1. Please introduce yourself.: I'm (un-) known on the internet as KayZoka. Kaya for short
2. How long have you been making websites?: My Neocities profile was created at 2025-02-01, I didn't make any websites before this
3. And what got you into the hobby?: This video
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: A website that has personality, it's own identity, that's recognizable
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 have a faint vision of my website and I try to cement it into reality as I work on it
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: Seeing it thrive
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: Adding content. It's pretty easy for me to make all the pages with all the different technologies but then I get stuck on what to actually put on them
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: I want to have different layout on some pages, but it's hard to make layouts, so currently every page is the same
10. How confident are you with CSS?: Feels like I'm on shaky scaffolding without support. I didn't fall yet, though
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: Looking at the preset of this questionnaire, now I do
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: <!DOCTYPE html>
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: Add front matter?
14. Do you know JavaScript?: Yes, I can read MDN
15. How about PHP?: No, and I don't think I'll ever need it. For this webste, at least
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: I guess it does? Content wise, there isn't any content. CSS wise, yes
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: I want to shift to finally add content
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: Press Ctrl + L and tell me (that sounded way too harsh)
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: Do what you want! I'd prefer if you didn't use deprecated elements with your website, it can still be just as retro with HTML5, but I'm not the one to control you
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: Yes
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: So cool!
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: Kinda indifferent?
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: I basically just did, and it's basically the same
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: Sometimes
25. What text editor do you use?: Sublime text
26. Why do you use that one?: Neovim is too hard to configure (I tried to three times during the last year), Visual studio code is Microsoft's. VScodium is icky
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: On my own
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: I don't know the details, but you should pick what fits you best
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: Currently, the compiled directive weighs 1.9MB
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: I keep the development code of kayzoka.net on my local machine and push the compiled directive to the server. Any other services hosted on kayzoka.net are kept only on the server
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: Same answer as to number 4
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: Orange is deliberate, else is subconscious
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: No way!
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: I'm currently completely alone in this
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: Only four people, who I have deemed trustworthy to not leak it to other people I know, know
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: Sometimes every day all day
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: Same answer as to number 5
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: Currently me-focused, but I want to make it hobby-focused as well
39. Do you do web design professionally?: Naw
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: Naw, naw
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: I'd love to, but I want to set up an email server first
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: I'd want to use 'sane' social media, also known as the fediverse
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: First two are proprietary. I'm peer pressured to use Telegram in real life, but personally, I like XMPP far more. matrix.org, the biggest Matrix server, is blocked in my region
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: Not always, but when I do, I listen to 'modern vocaloid'-like stuff
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: I have subdomains for stuff that technologically can't be put on one domain. Peertube, for example
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: Depends on how broad you think of 'one topic'. Many technology-centric topics
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: Try T^T
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: I'm alone T^T
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: Could definitely be better, but it works
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: Using invalid HTML, RSS, etc., especially on purpose. These are standardized this way for a reason! It makes everyone's lives easier!
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: Globally, more static websites, FLOSS and less hate. In the peripheral web, definitely less hate. Feels like there's too many 'I hate x' buttons and stamps and stuff. Like yeah, they're not wrong, but in my opinion 'hate' is a reeaally strong word
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: I try my best, but HTML's too ambiguous with its semantic elements and I can't tell whether I'm using them correctly
53. Do you consider different browsers?: I develop on Librewolf, a Firefox fork, and sometimes test the website on Chromium
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: I personally use Librewolf. It's a Firefox fork that focuses on privacy. Firefox's addition of (proprietary only as well!) AI was so baffling that I reconsidered my browser choice. You do you, though
55. And what OS are you on?: I use Arch btw
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: Not really a strong opinion, but it's lightweight and I had to set up everything myself. If anything goes wrong, then it'll only be my fault. Also bragging rights
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: I develop desktop first, and then try to fit it on a mobile screen
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: It's been so abused in the past that everyone hates it now. So nobody uses it. So when I find an autoplaying page, it's a nice surprise
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: Awesome stuff!!! Most webrings have a rule that a website must have some content, but as you can tell, I don't think my website has any for now
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: I don't, and I don't know if I will. I don't visit web shrines that often
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: Depends on how broad you think of 'cliche'. I want to believe that my website's quite original
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: Same answer as to number 5
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: I will make my own assets when I will need them
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: w3schools.com, MDN
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: Can't think of any
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: If you want a website with many pages, then save yourself a headache and sore fingers and just use a static website generator (if not, or if you want a radically new design for every page, it would probably be overkill)
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: Classes in the HTML, everything else in separate CSS files. Learnt that the hard way
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: They're deprecated. <iframe>s are cool if you want to embed some media, especially from different websites. But if you want to use them like <frameset>s, see answer to number 66
69. How about table-based layouts?: Used to use tables to structure the index section. Learned that that is a bad idea the hard way
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: Had to search what that was, but I still don't quite understand. I guess my website's technically one-column?
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: The M in HTML is 'Markup'. You mark up a general structure. CSS is where the tinkering and fine-tuning begins
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: I'll try if I don't forget (I will forget)
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 don't make new layouts lol
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: Depends on how broad you think of 'a beginner'. I don't consider myself a beginner, but there's also no 'end game' or 'skill ceiling' in web development
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: Yess
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: It was sooo long ago that I don't really remember. I knew how (in theory, at least) to write HTML in, like, 4th, 5th grade?
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: I hope not
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: You do you!
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: rem for fonts, em for layouts
80. Do you have a favourite font?: Maple mono, Libre Baskerville, sitelen seli kiwen
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: That's such a fun idea! I think we would have some pages &or directories that only one of us controls, and some 'shared' pages where we have a thread-like discussion of a topic, and we could have different stylesheets to reflect who's writing and-...
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: Not as often as I update my site, but I sure do love surfin' the web
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: I have the interlinked section for stuff I find exceedingly interesting. It would be an honour if I'd get bookmarked or linked to
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: I just do what I feel like doing. The website's not developed enough to have a big point of interest
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: Yes! First to come to my mind are Internet protocols in general and gamedev. I don't have any collections apart from the interlinked section
86. How often and for how long are you online?: 'online' where? I don't play video games that often now so I'm usually not in my friend's group chat and I'm currently not engaging in any conversations online
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: Me. I Am The Only User
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: XHTML is more strict. Aside from the technical wonders of implementing such technology, I dislike the HTML's ability to render no matter what. So yes. I used XHTML5 before the website moved to 11ty
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: I do, not that often now though. I have shell scripts to enter my development environtment and to push to production, does that count?
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: Currently, the website's being developed on Eleventy. It's so much easier. I want to make a blog post about this
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: I'd like to have an incremental counter thingy you can click to increment and it'll be updated globally
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: Arch linux forums when I have issues with my system, but I'm just a silent lurker
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?: My pages are written in Markdown before getting processed by 11ty. Does that count?
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: I'm being called smart a lot in real life, but I don't rember if anyone called me cool. I mean, I haven't heard anyone say any other one's cool that much in real life
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: Of course I was, and of course I did, and I'm still embarassed of stuff I've done, but that means I've grown. I don't delete my older work now for archiving purposes
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: Archive for sure
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: I want to but I'm afraid of over sharing
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: I don't really have one currently and as far as I'm aware nobody I could call a friend online had a website
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: I try to but I might forget
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: I have been answering this the whole day and it's currently 2026-01-06T02:09. I was distracted a lot by getting source links for this page and by people from real life