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Ciel + 17 + SGean

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Intro

Hello I am Ciel, evil webmaster of cielblue.net ooOOOHhhhooohh. I am 17 years old from Singapore and have been doing this website thing since early 2025. I like ummm the colour blue, skies (ciel in French), and I think .net TLD is cute... hence cielblue.net. BTW, the PFP and page doll are my persona.

I don't like describing myself so this is very short. Look at this empty space! If you think about it, empty and sky use the same kanji (空)... What am I talking about again?

Questionnaire

100 Questions for Webmasters by MOUSEcky

Please introduce yourself.: hi my name is ciel and im doing this in class cuz its very boring. ive done this exact questionnaire like 4 times already but i kept losing my old webmaster pages and losing my answers. ive played these games before... im writing this on 2026-05-19 so some stuff might be outdated in the future. Edit 2026-07-01: I changed some answers.
How long have you been making websites?: i started learning html in october 2024 and i published my first site march 2025.
And what got you into the hobby?: idk! probably a combination of seeing videos about making a website and wanting to learn html for fun.
What kind of website are you most interested in?: i like website that look cool.. and maybe some blogs depending on the content.
What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?: everything is just made along the way. maybe like a bit of planning when it comes to layouts but that it.
Please link to your biggest inspirations.: monsieurdoll when i first started and maybe mouseling.net?
What's your favourite part about making websites?: having a central place to show what i do and who i am.
And the thing you struggle with the most?: making my site look cool. especially when i compare myself with other websites...
Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: i use similar layouts because im laaazy. if it works, it works.
How confident are you with CSS?: fairly confident to do basic things but i still refer to docs or forums fairly often.
Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: yes. i think...
What is your favourite HTML element?: <details>. what to do you mean i can open and collapse information without javascript! amazing!
If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: i plan and write the content. what is a page's purpose if not its content?
Do you know JavaScript?: nope. ive tried many times to learn... i will not give up!!
How about PHP?: nope. i use static site hosts anyway. i would like to learn it, though.
Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: not intetionally. i like having differently styled pages.
Are you more focused on content or design?: content. but i want to get better at design thoughhh.
Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: yes! it was my first debit card purchase. kind of impulsive...
What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: as long as they follow basic web standards (like not using deprecated tags) then theyre alright i guess.
Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: mostly, yes. i have a html validation extension to check.
What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: cool to look at but idk where to fit them on my site.
What do you think of button walls in particular?: no opinion.
If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: ive restarted many times and i just keep making the same thing so...
Are you envious of other people's websites?: all the time!!
What text editor do you use?: VSCodium
Why do you use that one?: i used to use VSCode but i kinda had a phase of removing big tech from my life so i turned to VSCodium. I like how convenient Emmet (autofill and suggestion thing) is and the git source control panel is nice as someone who struggles remembering terminal commands.
Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: on my web server.
This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: its pointless. trash vs garbage.
How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: my repository is 1GB... the main culprit is all the audio files from my cd page but other than that it's probably like 10MB.
Do you keep local backups of your files?: yep.
Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: i like visual websites UNLESS theyre super laggy. simple is nice for blogs though.
Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: i like blue, and black and white. this is very subconscious, i'm physically unable to use any other colours.
Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: occassionally. more of a general "why do i do anything" feeling.
Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: very solitary.
Do people in your real life know about your website?: only like 3 people know i have one but i dont tell them what it is.
Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: i have bouts of updating super often like every day or multiple times a day and periods of not updating for weeks.
And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: yeah, i just get bored of my old designs.
Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: i suppose me and hobby focussed.
Do you do web design professionally?: no.
If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: i kind of hope to... im a student and studying something that can apply to web design.
Do you communicate with people by email very much?: nope. but i dont talk to people much at all anyway.
Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: i have a few accounts but only for specific reasons. i do somewhat reject social media but it's not why i have a website.
How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: whatsapp is a must. i have discord as like a "just in case" thing.
Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: sometimes. whatever is in my playlist, mostly visual kei because i'm not adventurous with my taste.
Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: right now i have one personal site. at one point i had an enstars fansite but i dont like enstars anymore so it's been scrapped.
On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: many, i think.
Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: im just being myself. a persona sounds tiring.
Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: nope.
Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: css is weird sometimes.
What are practices that you think people should avoid?: autoplay music, a lot more but i have poor memory.
What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: uhhh semantic html idk. and responsive layouts but i get why it's not common.
Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: i try my best to be an semantic as i can.
Do you consider different browsers?: technically, yes. i use brave (chromium-based) and librewolf (firefox-based) on my computer and safari on my phone so i dont really mean to consider different browsers, it just happens that way.
Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: brave. privacy focussed, no fingerprinting wowww. and familiar for chrome refugees.
And what OS are you on?: windows 11.
Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: school requirement, sighhh. i guess it's wide support is convenient. people complain about it a lot but honestly i haven't run into any major issues so far so idk.
Are your websites mobile-friendly?: i just try to make them not broken on mobile.
What are your thoughts on autoplay?: hate it.
What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: i don't understand webrings that basically act as fanlistings, this is weirdly common. im currently in no ai webring and angelnet.
Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: i have a hibiki wataru web shrine. i wanna see some personal stuff, but if it's a topic that is quite niche, some information can be quite interesting.
Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: what dat mean.
What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: i just want to be satified.
Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: yep. i drew some page dolls of my OCs.
What are your favourite resource sites?: ahh idk any rn i'll prob have them on my future links page.
Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: inline styling. using 1 million ids or very convoluted css selector just for one or two styling properties that will not change based on screen size is just inconvenient.
What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?: don't steal your favourite website's entire source code. it's weird and rude and won't help you learn to code on your own.
Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: mostly css unless it's something very specific and hard-coding won't affect mobile-friendliness.
What do you think of frameset layouts?: bad for links or whatever.
How about table-based layouts?: isn't that bad for semantics. we have css grid now!
Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. i guess i do use them sometimes when my page is simple enough.
Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: css. html is like a sketch and css is the rendering.
Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: never none but minimal, yes.
Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?: no, i just make one when i need it.
Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: im like.. slightly more advanced than a beginner.
Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: no, unless i want to see how they did something.
How did YOU learn how to make websites?: w3schools.
Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: what dat mean.
Thoughts on floating elements?: if you mean the css property float, then theyre fine(?) if you mean elements that are floating not inside a div like a page doll then theyre okay as long as they dont affect interaction with the page content.
When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: px, but rem for padding.
Do you have a favourite font?: times new roman, angelic war, ms gothic.
Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: no. idk who i would even do that with.
Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: i like looking at the global activity page on neocities fairly often but i don't usually check out the websites.
Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: no. if i can i just follow them on neocities or nekoweb. if they did.. wow. why O.o
What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: uhhh idk what anyone would be impressed with.
Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: a biiiit, but when i try to reseach the information gets kinda lost on me so i have trouble understanding then it's not super fun like that.
How often and for how long are you online?: idk.. like all the time.
When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: idk i never really thought about it.
Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: no.
Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: no it hurt my brain.
Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: idk, never used one. i guess they're quite useful but i wouldn't want to use one because i don't want a consistent layout.
Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: no. i used to because i saw other people have one but now i dont really care. also idk how accurate it is.
Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: not really.
Do you write your page content directly into the editor, or do you prepare it elsewhere, like a text document or a Word document?: usually just directly in the editor.
Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: no. hmm like a few times but i don't buy it.
Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: all the time. it's kind of ridiculous how little content i have because i keep deleting things.
Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: i wouldn't archive the personal stuff but maybe i'd leave a few things up?
Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: i think i do reveal quite a bit on my blog sometimes (which i usually delete eventually) but i guess i'm also secretive in the sense that i don't like saying things about myself explicitly on my about me page.
Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: tak de
And do you optimise the images on your website?: i try to. lag pisses me off! but then my images all end up suuuper blurry but i don't care tbh.
We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: it's my lunch break bye.

Random Site Facts

The title of the home page, "Dear my angel...", is a reference to the last lyric in the song PRINCESS by Versailles, "Dear my princess".
My first domain was seventy7.neocities.org, then obliqueangel.neocities.org, before obtaining cielblue.net. I originally wanted ciel.blue but it was taken.
This site is hosted on Cloudflare pages, not Neocities.
This may be obvious but the site navigation on each page reflects the folder system and matches the URL. I think it's cute.