saturday

there's already a short bio on the index but i thought a full page might be nice? you can call me toy/saturday/crow, i am not a person i am an 'it'

places to find me:

email toymouse@proton.me
askbox n/a (i dont know what people use after neosprings and tumblr asks became account only q-q)

while you wait for me to actually write something on this page:

i did 100 questions for webmasters

1. Please introduce yourself.: toy/crow/saturday (<- indecisive) take your pick ^^
2. How long have you been making websites?: for a couple of years now, five or six or so, that's not necessarily when i learned to code but that's when i got good at it.
3. And what got you into the hobby?: i forgot what did, a motivation to have a unique place to display my art that i could fully customise was probably a driving factor (i know it is now)
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: i find myself drawn to really aesthetically simple websites, like just plain text and maybe an incredibly simple gallery. it's just something i would never be happy with in my own sites, but i find myself being drawn in by them. i also like sites that use photo collage, or have navigation primarly by images.
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 just draw them out and work from there. since i usually use my drawings in the designs sketching it all out is very helpful. so this current version of the site, i just drew the duck kid holding the aquarium at 1920x1080, lined and colored it and then made it into seperate layers.
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: ok this question is tough cause i dont really have one >.>; gosh i'll remember something eventually. i wanted to say old kids websites (think poptropica/club penguin (& other disney virtual world games) but i'm not sure how true that is. i just think about them when i design sites *shruggie*
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: i like searching for assets like pictures, stamps, and fonts and stuff like that. i got a bunch saved and i love making them
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: hm making a responsive website, since i like to use the website more like a canvas for art it's made with desktops in mind.
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: i use unique layouts for special pages ... not that i have any here right now
10. How confident are you with CSS?: sometimes i can center a div sometimes i can't
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: i knew what this was and then i forgot *googling* well, that was interesting to find out again
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: i love < main >
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?
14. Do you know JavaScript?: the most complex thing i know is fetch
15. How about PHP?: nada
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: i have an underwater/ocean theme this time. last time it was rainbows
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: design design design
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: i had a domain once but didnt use it for much, id do it again with something cheaper
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: theyre cool
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: uhhhhh, lets do that! 12 errors and nine warnings. the warnings seem to be mostly from the chat, but the errors are for img alt descriptions and something about some li tag not having a ul/ol parent or whatever. ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄ ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: very cool
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: those are really cool :D i dont think i've ever made one but i should start saving people's buttons
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: i keep wanting to make something different but never feel enough motivation
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: not anymore honestly i just cant keep retouching my website T_T
25. What text editor do you use?: vscodium
26. Why do you use that one?: easy to push to github with it
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: i just host images on the website's host
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: i do like that nekoweb has less file restrictions (i believe thats still the case for free users? i was gonna do some three js stuff here initially)
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: according to neocities it takes up 107.96mb and uses 126.28mb of bandwidth
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: yeah i recently (within past year) finally replaced my broken external drive (i will try to not break this one too)
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: I like *making* visual sites ... browsing them though i get a little overwhelmed
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: i am currently going through a blue/green phase :<
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: nope
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: i do it for me (but webmaster friends sound cool ^^)
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: they know... a little (honest im never shwoing any of them this!! i dont need people in my real life knowing what im into!! [unless they're chill] )
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: i used to update it once every few days :0 all throughout 2024-2025... but now i do it about once every week/ two weeks.
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: i try to not make too many website changes these days. don't really have the time plus i wanna focus on making other stuff
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: it's more hobby focused.. i dont really talk about myself that much
39. Do you do web design professionally?: nah
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: i don't think i'd enjoy professional website design much tbh, even though i like making my own sites they're all experimental and are kinda clunky. good for fun but not for work.
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: not really
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: i dont use social media much anymore, i do have a tumblr that i use frequently
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: i just dont talk to others that much lol
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: nah i watch movies / listen to audiobooks, currently listening to "The Stars, Like Dust" and watching Colony
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: i keep everything to one website, never had need of another (well i do have a neocities + nekoweb but they just mirror each other)
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: i mostly keep to my art and occasional journalling
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: its mostly just me unfortunately
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: nah but maybe one day
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: why is there no grid masonry? you have to make some sort of javascript thing last i checked for that kinda thing to work.
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: i sometimes look at a website and wonder why its not responsive. like, the layout will be very simple and it doesn't respond at all & that sort of thing would be easy to implement as well.
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: semantic elements are cool (though i think im probably using them wrong hm)
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: i've started using more semantic html, good for organizing stuff
53. Do you consider different browsers?: nope
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: firefox is the only one for me (or consider lagrange). why you should use it? i mean are there any other browsers that dont absolutely suck?
55. And what OS are you on?: i used to have mint but im back on windows 11 T_T
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: yes it was so nice to not have to struggle to uninstall windows bloatware
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: not really
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: i have no problem with it as long as its thoughful (not too loud thankyou)
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: no but they seem cool
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: gosh i've been thinking of making one but i could never decide for what. maybe transformers
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: they're cliche cutesy sites & i love them
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: my ideal website has a lot of interactivity and things to explore but i've never really achieved that goal
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: mentioned above but yes and yes
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: foollovers and sora.saiin.net
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: i tried to make a darker/more toned down website in the past but it didn't stick for long!!
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: when you see something interesting on someone else's site open dev tools and examine how they made it, copy it and play around with it. quickest way to learn imo.
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: all my styling's in css
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: no real opinion
69. How about table-based layouts?: they seem like such a hassle...when looking at older sites i struggle to parse them
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: not really?
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: the css is always the tricky part
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: yes, as a simple directory, but its not anything i'd publish
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 only make layouts when i need them
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: not a beginner anymore, but not confident either. i know just enough that i could probably teach someone else the basics though.
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: it's a good habit to have!
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: initially i learned html/css/javascript from W3Schools for my first site on neocities
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: yes, i've made pure css filters with buttons/checkboxes
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: never use it personally but no strong opinions
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: px then i convert to rem or use % when necessary
80. Do you have a favourite font?: MS Gothic
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: ooo that'd be cool. either we'd each have our own pages on the site or each page would be a collab between us :0
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: not intentionally, i usually just stumble across them
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: yes and i would be very happy that someone cared about my site enough to bookmark it <:
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: i hope they like my art gallery
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: i have a little bit of interest but dont collect
86. How often and for how long are you online?: im online every day, and would be for most of the day if i didnt stop myself >.< (working on it)
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: im not sure, people who like cute art? kodocons/pedos? but that is just me and the target audience at the end of the day is me.
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: not really
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: sometimes i mess around with godot but not much outside of that
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: i always use 11ty after i found out about it, it's very helpful for generating galleries/blogs and i love templates, cuts down on copypasting eveything
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: are those really accurate? i might put a hitcounter on my site again
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: i lurk 32-bit cafe sometimes, and i did actually participate in some littlespace forum that i dont remember the name of but thats about it
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 write in markdown files in obsidian for blogs, but i do everything else in the editor
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: i have no idea lol. i try not to think about this it makes me nervous.
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: im not really embarrassed by my older coding attempts, some of them were quite creative and i wish i had the same spark rn honestly. i dont really delete things out of shame, they just get lost
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: i should back my site up to IA someday.
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: i reveal things about myself that i wouldn't reveal in real life
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: i dont really have any right now .. hm that's not really supposed to sound sad (i hope it doesn't)
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: god uhhhhhh, i try to optimise assets like background images (keeping them under 1000px maximum, webp for transparency or jpg if none) but i do tend to upload high resolution images to the gallery so apologies if it's slow!
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: it took me all day! i think through things kinda slow. i did learn a few things here and there (such as these dd and dl tags...)

okay well that's all, here's the questions so you can answer them if you want!