What inspired you to create a personal website?

[cynderthekitsune]

i suppose for me it was cuz social media felt extremely exhausting; i felt pretty burnt out from it - and i really felt the modern web was... far from how it could be, i guess. for a lack of a better term.
i ended up with Neocities for a bit, but over time i ended up on Nekoweb as i felt Neocities didn't quite feel like it hit the same way? idk. Nekoweb just feels more like at home for me lol.
especially since it's let me express who i truly am i've kinda finally felt free? if that makes any sense. my whole likes, interests, etc have seemed to mostly form during my later childhood with only few from my teenagehood, so especially because of that, lots of it has gotten me some of the worst responses?
i kinda felt personal sites are just way more chill, it's kinda nice being in my own space that i can control :3

in response to your questions, i've always wanted to make my own personal site (^_^) and i've kinda felt like it's a dream come true lol.
i guess some of the biggest challenges i've faced when making it was primarily CSS and JS, and all the cool things that make a site more lively? hehe. now it looks far different from the start and i'm kinda proud of how far i've come.
in five years, i don't really know? i kinda want it to be more 'deeper' and just fix up the rough edges maybe.

[Malice]

I remember wanting to learn HTML since I was about 11 or 12, but I'd always stop after a bit. I made my Neocities account in 2020 because I liked the idea of having a space for my own and I was also really into the 90s/00s nostalgia-bait at the time. I never really did anything to it until 2022, and I've been keeping up with it regularly since then!

My main challenges have been trying to figure out how to put my ideas into code and also avoiding burnout. Sometimes maintaining a website feels like the two week Minecraft phase but with coding... I'll go awhile without doing anything too substantial, then for a couple of weeks I'll write a bunch of blog posts or in my current case, completely revamp the site. I've been getting better at being consistent, though!

In five years, I think my site would look a bit different as I get better at coding and my tastes change, but the core of it would still be more or less the same. I could see pages being more fleshed out, especially the art and blog sections. Maybe I'll end up making a separate site for my art portfolio/whatever art projects I'm working on?

[Myrmeform]

What inspired you/made you want to create a personal website?
Like others have said, being a kid on neopets and seeing all the creative petpages people would make. I would marvel at them for hours, eventually very gradually messing with html myself. I would use templates at first and I think that helped me slowly become familiar with html and css. I enjoyed making basic petpages, and on other sites that allowed more creative freedom than an icon and header I enjoyed messing around with it then. Years later, I saw some posts on social media talking about making your own website, linking to yesterweb stuff and neocities. I had no idea there was a free website host so it was exciting finding out about neocities.

What are some challenges you've faced in the process of creating and maintaining a site?
Learning html and css haha. It's very hard for me to focus on, its like coding and my brain are the wrong sides of the magnets that push away. I'll have a picture in my head for exactly what I want, and then I search around and find exactly the code that will help me get there, and then fiddling with it for my needs causes my brain to overheat and shut down. It's slow going but it's going!


Imagine your site five years from now (even if you may or may not be running the same site five years down the line, or may have closed it out as a completed project)... What do you think it will look like, or what would you want it to look like?
I want my photo galleries to be finished, I want my ant pages to be finished, I want to expand my neopets page to feature my neopet ocs, I want to make a flight rising page for my lore and ocs and such, I want to make a page for the music I listen to.... There's so much I want to add. Hopefully in the future it will be much more expansive.