1. Please introduce yourself.

I'm cobie, as you could tell. I like dark media and I like putting on a dark visage to hide that I'm just as brainrotted as everyone else.. go read my blog.

2. How long have you been making websites?

My first noob website was on Neocities (and built on Bootstrap (i miss her)), but the era that website holds for me is long behind me (for the better), so I want to lie and tell you this is my first.

3. And what got you into the hobby?

Toyhou.se.... I learned so much from just editing codes that one day I woke up and found myself knowing html & css like the master builders in the Lego Movie. Someone gifted me whatever the premium is on there once randomly, and I didn't last like a year or two before I broke off and realized... why am I posting my content HERE with restraints when I could make my own website and be better off?

4. What kind of website are you most interested in?

MINE (but for real i love graphics & resources collections... im making one too if you wanna see it/contribute!)

5. What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?

My workflow is I look at my work, then I cry about it not being good, and then i miraculously lock in last second and save the day. Occasionally I'll go on Pinterest to look for inspiration, and I rip layouts from old newspapers for inspiration. Anything else I add is random and depends on if i found widgets or something fun to add.

6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.

Hmm... I don't know that I actually keep inspirations? I like to keep all my visions clear and unique to me by hitting everything with a hammer until it eventually comes together. I apply that to all my work, so I can't link anyone... and even then, my VISUAL inspirations are damn near plastered all over the site so you can take a few guesses that I'm just not aware of.

7. What's your favourite part about making websites?

Adding new things that no one but me likes!! Then I get to talk about myself to myself and spare my friends my adhd rambling. If you thought this site was for anyone but me and my mind, you were mistaken.

8. And the thing you struggle with the most?

Maybe... not getting the urge to rewrite the site when I come across someone cool like I did when I saw that reigen website? But the current layout I made is me-proof because I find it very fetching...

9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?

I'm trying to make everything have a uniform layout, but I also find that boring as hell. I let every page just tell me who she is, and some are unique, and others are not.

10. How confident are you with CSS?

Pretty confident. It's not a matter of being knowledgeable, you just need to know where to go and what to look up when your internal CSS bank fails you. And it never hurts to look up better ways to format things.

11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?

No girl lol. But we're doing it right now so... is this not a purpose? lol

12. What is your favourite HTML element?

Text. If that counts, i think it does.

13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?

I'll make a container set to like 900px. It's a predictable size that feels right to me. And then I'll style said container and make a main content box to hold all the good stuff.

14. Do you know JavaScript?

I 'know' it like some people can read languages and understand it but not write or speak it for themselves... I never had a good way to learn it. I CAN however write things with a reference and frankenstein things to.. mixed results. When it doesn't work, I just scrap it for now and just do whatever it is manually or with CSS anims.

15. How about PHP?

Nope! I can't even tell you what that is... lol

16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?

Silvers and blacks. Pristine, angelic theming. The gothic aesthetic is beautiful when reduced to its simplest forms, and I like for everything I make to be art.

17. Are you more focused on content or design?

I want to say content... but I'm the same person who spends days on one piece of a layout. To be generous, I'll say 50/50 since my words are important to me, too.

18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?

I don't. If I could, I want this site to be something metal or beautiful in a sort of esoteric way... I also want another site though, and that one would be yet another .moe!

19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?

I like them when I like them, that kind of thing. It's very common, and I at least can appreciate them all since they come from a place of community or nostalgia (or both). Although the red ones that have gory features (you know the ones, they're very common) are my favorite, along with those that flawlessly replicate the frutiger concepts. (This was the first one I saw.)

20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?

Oh, we're supposed to check..? I just make sure it shows on at least 2 browsers and doesn't throw major errors.

21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?

More people need to make them. I'm working on mine! My site is still a baby (its only one month old), so I haven't had the time. I'm planning on joining a bunch of those nav rings with the side and top and the button banners. Then I'll have everyone's media on my site.

22. What do you think of button walls in particular?

Baddies supporting baddies.

23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?

I just 'started over' (i haven't had an active site in ~2-3y), so it would probably be similar. Maybe more tarot based/whimsigoth pinterest style design. But I love my silvers.

24. Are you envious of other people's websites?

No, but if I see someone's whose is better than mine, I'll upgrade mine to stand on the same level. That's where I am right now (on the same level), but with my flex-based layout, I can change and add more sections at will!

25. What text editor do you use?

Phoenix Code + Visual Studio Code + Notepad++

26. Why do you use that one?

Phoenix Code is too good to me with their live preview but it's not built for a whole website so I use VSCode when it's not working. But I don't like VSCode live previews so I always come back.

27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?

I host on my web server whereever possible but I'm not one of those people who limit themselves or have a fully puritan stance on site-based hosting.. I use Catbox.moe with a backup I can push when Catbox goes down.

28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?

It doesn't matter, I obviously at any point could nuke my old site and rebrand, but I want to be on nekoweb. I need my widgets!

29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?

I have no idea.... Am I supposed to be able to know?

30. Do you keep local backups of your files?

My site is built on my computer and drag and drop pushed to nekoweb dashboard.

31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?

Visual! But the pastel girls have me in a chokehold with the lace if im being honest.

32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?

#6a666a (color) #151515 (text) black for absolute emphasis

33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?

I have quit in the past, then I came back! My old website is catching dust and my old pen-name is outdated! But this time I'll stay.

34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?

I don't have any webmaster friends. I want some, but the site isn't ready for me to turn to a... 'public release'. Despite being public. Does that make sense?

35. Do people in your real life know about your website?

One friend and maybe my parents.

36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?

I do... I plan to keep doing it until I die so I have a complete portfolio of Cobie.

37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?

I do and have changed it, but only the layout. The three base colors should never change outside of special content.

38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?

Me focused, my writing is me and not just my hobby. Everything I do is for me.

39. Do you do web design professionally?

I don't. Whoever hires me should be fired for asking, I have no idea what im doing when it comes to real layouts.

40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?

Nooo

41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?

In Neocities I did, like not a LOT but I got a few emails and sent back a cute little thanks and so. I want that sentiment to extend to this site, but I know it's a lot to ask. I plan to give my Discord out too, but I don't know...

42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?

NO I, too, reject social media. The very least that I use (since I don't want to be a total outcast) is Reddit since you can control what you see more and at least be helpful to others. Even then, I'm a huge lurker who only comes out to help people and give out compliments.

43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?

I do use Discord, but still I don't talk to a lot of people and accidentally ghost everyone. I'm very antisocial but I love talking, so who knows what I really need. lol

44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?

I listen to mixes I accidentally keep going while linking youtube videos, I listen to my site's music box (even on my phone, which is the reason my site is mobile-friendly), and I listen to Spotify. As much as it makes me nervous to admit it, I'm technically still considered maybe a late babybat... I listened to a lot of music and artists, but only about their hits. I don't have any goths around me to educate me, and I don't have a lot of time for idly listening to music, so...

45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?

Just the one.

46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?

Go look at my blog.

47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?

My real self with a little drama and magic. My persona is the goth with a little bite and melodrama, but the real me is that, but with the context that I really really really like stupid things. I'm plenty moody and dramatic on my own.

48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?

Not THIS website but on my Toyhou.se yes... I count TH as a 'website' since I did contribute a lot to coding there at certain times + I had a really good website look at one point that overwrote everything using inline CSS. (By the way how do you make your website have CSS access as a paid feature but forget to put overflow restraints? I just made a huge box that covered the screen with position absolute... And released that method to the other users since all my work is always free.)

49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?

I... suppose so. I don't have any complaints other than I think the raw font element should also handle font-family and that text and font should have interchangeable forms or they should link together better.

50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?

Make your site in a container with a fixed width and then put margin-left: auto and margin-right:auto in the CSS... I have an ultrawide monitor and it looks very awkward when all the content is on the left of the page... But you do you, I still click press F12 and position it to the right width and it's almost always good

51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?

Hm.... I'm not sure.... probably use less colors like me... I love grayscale bc all my accent colors then can pop out. All of indieweb is very colorful, but I've never really seen another gray site like mine. And no, black as the dominant color Isn't what i mean, I mean like my gray, silvery aesthetic here.

52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?

This doesn't matter lol, I love my divs... If everything was up to code, how would anyone have any fun around here? You're reading this, arent you?

53. Do you consider different browsers?

I have on this computer Google Chrome, Brave (based on Chrome, but it won't work for previews), and Microsoft Edge. So I test on Chrome and Edge.

54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.

I use Brave Browser since I think a bug got into Chrome and I'm a little paranoid... plus Brave is a little better than Chrome since it's at least an ad-blocker in itself and I can sync it to my phone. I'm thinking of getting FireFox though soon.

55. And what OS are you on?

Im assuming you want me to say Windows...

56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?

No opinion. Although random thing, as a kid I used to love staring at the gummy-looking Windows logo on the desktop. What happened to that, huh?

57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?

I try to make it so because I access my own website on my phone and from my iPad. Plus it's just fun to do, which is why I recommend desktop-first layouts.

58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?

I don't mind like white noise autoplay or low volume menu music that has little button sounds. But otherwise it'd be a problem because I don't want to hear Hatsune Miku when I load up your page.. I love her but she's not exactly a soothing voice to be met by...

59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?

I want to join some so badly but my site needs to be like... my abstract version of perfection before I can just open it up to everyone. I want at least to have something worth visiting before I start linking myself to people's pages.

60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?

I'm making one right now! The ones I'm planning is for RGG, UTAU, and a blanket "media I don't agree with so I'm going to rewrite it through fan-fiction shrine", which will be a second bookshelf that also gets crossposted to my Ao3. So there'll be two bookshelves on the site, and the main bookshelf will probably redirect to my shrine bookshelf too.

61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?

Not at all. I try to make it look like something I made, and I personally haven't seen anyone else do what I do. The closest I've seen on Nekoweb at least is like... this site.

62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?

I don't have an ideal. You shouldn't have one, either, because that ruins the surprise of what you're going to make next.

63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?

I am an artist! I design all the assets I feel like designing, but not a lot of them. Anything that's meant to stand out will either be mine or picked out and curated (and maybe edited) by me.

64. What are your favourite resource sites?

I have a list of them here!

65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?

Not really. Or if there is I just don't care about it.

66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?

Don't ask me for advice, you might go to petrapixel or sadgrl.online? I think, anyway, unless that changed in the past few years.

67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?

Hard code meaning... I'm going to assume it's inline CSS, which I'll say inline is very important if you don't want your CSS file to look like spaghetti and then you have to rewrite the entire site like I did.

68. What do you think of frameset layouts?

I don't know what that is.

69. How about table-based layouts?

Table based? Like tables in html..? I see that when I go to geocities sites through Gifcities on Internet Archive. There was a gorgeous one I wish I could remember...

70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?

My site is loosely built on a three-column flex layout. I can't call it three column, though, since in the second column, I also use columns within the columns underneath the main content. And then fix it up neatly with flex-wrap and flex-grow. So my ultimate conclusion is you do you.

71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?

They're siblings, you can't just pick a favorite, they're practically the same thing!

72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.

No.... or if I did have one, it'd be because it's just a prototype for something. Like the media section on the blog was without CSS for a long time and it was still just as messy as ever.... But not on purpose, no, I always use 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?

Yeah, It's about how the original alpha website i made 5 months before Cobiesite came to be... and that was very ugly if I say so myself. Here's the link to the photo because I can't stand that thing. How could I make something like THIS place, but the first iteration of the site concept was so ugly im dying...

74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?

I don't think any of that applies, I don't know what this is called half the time if I'm being honest. At making CSS and HTML, I'm somewhere in the advanced category because I can do things that are cool. But I can't be advanced at this kind of development because I can't use JS or anything other than HTML/CSS. And recently RSS, but its so easy that babies can probably do that out the womb, so I'm not counting it.

75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?

Yeah, all the time. And if I like something, I'll drag it back here, decipher it, and then erase it and do nothing with what I just learned because it's not relavant to me. :D

76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?

W3Schools for the basics, but it's not hard at all. My first page I built on my own (not a published website, just on my computer) was a toyhou.se html template I pasted into probably like.. html-css-js.com and tried to figure out why it wouldn't work. I then looked it up on W3Schools and I think somewhere in that process, I understood there was much more beyond the paid limits I was being forced into, and that I could be better off somewhere else. Obviously I knew about Neocities since I hotlinked all kinds of graphics from there to my TH pages (sorry!! i didn't know better lol), but I'd say it took me about... 3 years before I made my own page there. That site was good for me, and I half wish I kept up with it, but it didn't even last a year, I'd say.. But it was invaluable to me.

77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?

Me when I put the marquee in the div and my editor cries that it can't go in there but I do it anyway.

78. Thoughts on floating elements?

Me and float were besties pre 2022, now I'm friends with display: flex;margin: x auto x auto;

79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?

Phoenix Code has little sliders and dials I love to use... when I wanted to switch to VSCode I literally had it for an hour before I realized I can't live without those things.

80. Do you have a favourite font?

Default serif/Times matched with a gothic font.

81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?

I don't work with others on things. You have to have your job and I have to have my job, and even then I get mad when your part of the deal drags us both down... Cobiediva

82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?

YES I've probably looked at over 100 this month and signed at least 10 guestbooks from those sites. And I only just realized my favorite resource site, Wasteland UTAU, was on Neocities... I've been a part of this from the start and I didn't even know...

83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?

I don't bookmark in general. The only thing in my bookmarks right now is sims patreon mods that are probably perma-locked. But if I found out someone bookmarked my site...? I'd probably feel bad for them because I never upload any new content despite my page being about writing... I live for just putting random filler content and new layouts everywhere, I guess.

84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?

With my vision. If they can see what I intended and they know that this all comes from a place of authentic feeling and vision, it's all okay.

85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?

I like gaming and making modlists for games, as well as UTAU! I make UTAUs, and once I finally have one that is acceptable to release, I'll finally have a Cobieloid...

86. How often and for how long are you online?

Too often, but I spend much of it in contentment. If you're gonna be online all the time, you at least have to make sure you're happy online. Otherwise you end up like the average twitter user after a while.

87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?

Meeeee and people who think I'm cool and funny and a good writer. I don't care about a target audience, and I've come to own that ever since Larian dev came up to the mic at TGA and basically told everyone 'if you make what you like, the people will come' and honestly... that's pretty good because I'm having fun.

88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?

Not really. Well, a little, if we're being honest.

89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?

Nope.

90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?

Every so often I, as a seasoned coder, will use SSGs, so people shouldn't feel too bad about it. This site itself wasn't made off a template, though. And I also can't blame anyone in the indieweb sphere who doesn't like SSG sites, either. They do come off as unoriginal, but imo, if you're making your own unique content and ideas and you're coming to learn and grow? You're a good one.

91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?

Technically... Nekoweb API handles visits. But I'm about to set up a clap counter thing where people cheer for you.

92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?

Not now, but I remember frequenting a few. The closest thing today is Reddit, so technically yes, I am active on some kinds of forums. I need to get to real forums, though.

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?

In the editor for stuff like this, in Pages/Docs for my stories and similar things.

94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?

No, but that's why I'm cool. People do call me cool, though, and I'm very funny.

95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?

See Q73. Other than that, I deleted all my old socials and my main TH acc maybe in 2024 because I wanted a second online life.

96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?

Leave it. If I start over later, I don't have to claim that past, and I have useful things here and fun things back there where I was.

97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?

I reveal it all if it isn't dangerous to me and not too personal. It's refreshing to be authentic like this.

98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?

Yes... I'm trying to get them to let me teach them how to make a website, but they're not locked in (hi if you're reading this, im talking about you, dm me)

99. And do you optimise the images on your website?

GIRLLLL I just learned about jpgs, I thought they were trashy and low quality, but I severly underestimated their game. I'm so sorry whoever went to my old site with all the pngs.

100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.

Not exhausted, lol. Good list. It came from here!

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