100 questions

These are 100 questions to answer from mouseling. Answered on December 24, 2025.

1. Please introduce yourself.: Hi, I'm Iso and I like listening to music.
2. How long have you been making websites?: I'm going to count Carrd as making websites so since 2021 I think.
3. And what got you into the hobby?: Started Carrd when I saw the guy I really wanted to be friends with using it so I copied him. At some point I found Spacehey in 2022 which gave me more customization freedom and I learned CSS from it. In 2023, I found and made a Neocities account but didn't like how it took half an hour to update because I wasn't very good at it yet and wanted to see if I was doing things wrong immediately. In 2024 I decided to try it again and search for a video tutorial to start off. I found this one which gave me an app right at the start that I can use with live preview so now I'm alright.
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: I like personal websites with cool styling.
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 come up with it as I go. That's what works best for me.
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: My biggest inspirations are mainly Serial Experiments Lain, and also unicodeangel, rice.place, i026net and now I can't think of any more.
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: I can make anything I want. I can write whatever I want, make it look however I want. I'm still learning to not make it for others, but for me.
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: I used to get stuck on how the index page looks and couldn't really get myself to work on the actual content of my site. Other people write big texts on their site and I don't understand how. For a lot of things, I have to look at other people's stuff as examples or else my mind goes blank mostly.
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: I started wanting to a different layout for every single page but it ended up being too hard and more draining(?) rather than looking any good or being able to even do it, so now I samey layout elements for about all pages except for sometimes that I might want to style it different for fun. It's better this way.
10. How confident are you with CSS?: I'm not a complete professional but I don't need to look up how to do things so much anymore so, for whatever I want to do, I feel confident.
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: I never saw it until these questions so I looked it up. Yes, I know how now.
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: I can't think of any being my favorite.
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: Copy and paste the <head>.
14. Do you know JavaScript?: Not really. I understand some minimally from using and editing premade JS code by others.
15. How about PHP?: Not at all.
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: Yes.
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: I want to focus more on content. As I said before, I tried to make different themes for each page but it really butchered my ability to make the content so now I have a general theme for all except for certain pages when I feel like it.
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: I don't think having the free Neocities site is owning a domain name but I don't really care about having one. Maybe unless I need to for whatever reason.
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: An inspiration.
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: It mostly is from what I know. I'm not a professional at this, like I said. There's probably a lot of things wrong. I don't know.
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: They're cool. I'm still trying to make one for myself a button that I'd be satisfied with.
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: I like looking through them.
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: It would not be completely different if not the same. I have a set idea in mind.
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: No, I feel more inspired when I see someone have a website with stuff I'd want to do too.
25. What text editor do you use?: Brackets.
26. Why do you use that one?: Because it was in the video I said about before. I went to it immediately because of the live preview feature.
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: I host them in with the rest of my files.
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: I think both are good. I got on Neocities before I knew of Nekoweb so that's why I'm on Neocities. I have things I don't like about both and things I like about both.
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: What is server space? My site has 148MBs of files.
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: Yup.
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: I like both. I don't like when it's confusion to navigate for me personally. I can't blame anyone for that.
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: Blue is my favorite color, and the color of the sky, oftentimes angels, a lot of my favorite things, Hatsune Miku.
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: Absolutely not! I love all of this. I love coding. If I quit this type of thing than my life is over already.
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: I don't have online friends in general. I have a hard time talking to people.
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: Only one has seen the website itself really. And I only barely showed it to a couple of other people because it came on topic and I wanted to show that I've been coding and making a personal website as a hobby now because I havent't seen the guy in a long while.
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: Yes, sometimes every day, sometimes every couple of days.
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: I don't think it changes very much because it's been the same ideas from the start.
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: I'd say it's all three. There's me, my interests and creative stuff, and anything outside that piques my interests (there's not much at the moment but it's in my head.)
39. Do you do web design professionally?: No. That would be a job I'd like.
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: Lol I don't preread questions and answered this in the previous.
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 can't personally get off social media because a lot of the artists I like are on there.
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.
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: I do. I like artists Ghost and Pals, Cavetown, Guchiry, Ado, Ano(and I's), Shinsei Kamattechan. Those are just a couple.
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: It's mostly on this one website.
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: Many topics. It's all of my brain.
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: It's me.
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: Not yet.
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: Yes, from what I understand.
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: If your site is based on the content, try not to get stuck on how it looks until you have the content at least. I have so little content of my mind in here because I was stuck in that loop.
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: I don't know.
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: I do use semantic HTML. I use whatever makes it less confusion to me.
53. Do you consider different browsers?: If I one day understood how.
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: I use Opera. Certain scripts in people's sites don't show up so I have to look at it through Chrome
55. And what OS are you on?: Windows.
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: I just use it.
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: I think so. I looked at it with my phone and everything is coherent just the same as on desktop.
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: I don't mind it. Though sometimes I don't expect it and jump but that's just me.
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: I'm in one, the Self-Insert Webring. I decided I'm not joining any more of them just because I struggled so badly with the code so I'm doing cliques now instead.
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: I have three that are available to see right now. I have like 15 sitting in my computer because I used to start making a shrine after any new media I engaged in that made me think. I realized this problem I have so now most of that type of writing will be in one page for all, like the Game guide page I made.
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: I don't know what cliches there are for websites.
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: One with a design that is satifying to me and that has a lot of writing and links that go around.
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: I wouldn't call myself an artist and no I don't make my own assets (for my site.) The stuff that is specifically for me is one commisioned art and picrews and screenshots of my characters in games.
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: One I can think is those Rentries and Carrds with abundence of graphics. One of my favorites is this one and there are more of them linked under each section. Tumblr is also a good place to search.
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: Being stuck on figuring out how to make my index page look more like in my head.
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: Are things not updating to the code you have written, or things loaded strangely? Hard refresh!
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: I hard-code few elements that need a unique CSS except for sometimes when this unique element needs a lot of CSS.
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: I don't fully understand this question.
69. How about table-based layouts?: Use flex, idk.
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: I used it before I started hard-coding CSS. This is an example of the type of thing I would hard-code for.
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: Probably more on HTML because of the content inside, like I've spent a long time answering these in the HTML.
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: I did. I have one I'm working on that is just a bunch of interesting words.
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 did a lot. That was my problem, making the layout and then not knowing what to fill it with.
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: I am somewhere in the middle.
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: I look at the source code of other sites when I want to understand how something is done.
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: I learned CSS from using SpaceHey and learned HTML slowly from the start of my own site.
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: Yes, I think.
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: I use it for images.
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: I use px.
80. Do you have a favourite font?: This one I'm currently using.
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: I would have to get along with the person but yes sure.
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: I do. It's fun.
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: I do bookmark sites. If I found out someone bookmarked my site, it depends on other context but I'd be like "Woah-"
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: The content.
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: Yeah, I have a bit of an interest in fixing machines. Like I once got dad's PS2 that couldn't scan the disk so I worked on it for 8 hours straight trying to fix it. I did manage to make it work for at most 10 seconds. I never fully fixed it because I manage to figure out that the motor is weak and needs to be replaced but I didn't have the money at the time. Then when I brought my laptop to get the charging port fixed, I was asking the guy questions because I was curious and wanted to understand how the DC jack being broken made my laptop not turn on at all despite being charged.
86. How often and for how long are you online?: Like all day every day. Unless I'm doing my other hobbies or have to do something in real life.
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: Weird people like me.
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: Never heard of it.
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: No. I still want to learn JavaScript myself.
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: I think it's good having a base to help.
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: No because like I said, I use Opera and it doesn't show it.
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: I don't. I want to, if I found any that interest me.
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?: Right into the editor.
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: Not cool, but cute. That's the word always used.
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: I did delete my old Youtube videos before when I didn't want anyone to see. I still have the meme videos from after that privated since I just don't want it anymore. Not really ashamed.
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: I'd leave it up. I don't understand the point of getting rid of it from everyone because I might've lost interest.
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: Oversharing is a problem I have.
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: I don't even have one.
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: Yes.
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: It was fun. Now I have to go eat.