1. Please introduce yourself.

I'm Sol Radguy but I have a lot of names. Sometimes people call me 7oby (the 7 is vital). Sometimes I'm Daemon, Somni, or Red. Names don't matter much to me.

2. How long have you been making websites?

My Neocities was made 2022 July 08, but I used to code pet pages on Neopets and Rescreatu back around 2004, and Myspace pages...

3. And what got you into the hobby?

20 years ago I was doing it because everyone else was and it was fun decorating a little slice of internet. Now I do it because social media has all the appeal of beige office carpet and I yearn for decorating little slices of internet again.

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

Ones extremely focused on some niche topic I've never heard of before, like the Tulpanomicon and the Serial Experiments Lain PS1 game fan translation. Ones with cool layouts like Tomomi Sakuba's website and makoenergy's site too.

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 generally wing it and make it up as I go. Sometimes I have an idea of where to put things (this page needs a large navigation bar, that page will need space to display a lot of images, etc) but not always.

6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.

I regularly visit dannarchy's site to skim through some of the weirder stuff hosted on there, but my biggest inspiration actually comes from two books: Creating Killer Websites by David Siegel (the 1997 2nd edition) and HTML5 and CSS3 All-In-One For Dummies by Andy Harris. They're fun to flip through for ideas.

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

Sticking GIFs and PNGs all over them like stickers.

8. And the thing you struggle with the most?

The damn mobile view. I hate it. I do it because sometimes I reference my site when I only have my phone and that's the only reason. If I had a laptop with me 24/7 I would never code for mobile. Some of the pages on my site don't work on mobile (like the GameFAQs archive and they're going to stay that way forever.

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

There are different sections of my website that are broken down into different layouts, yeah. You can kind of get an idea of how I organize them by layout in the sitemap.

10. How confident are you with CSS?

I first learned how to code when the internet was on CSS1 and like HTML2 and didn't code websites at all for about a 20 year span lol! So, I'm learning but... There's a lot. There's so much.

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

Yes! I use data lists a lot.

12. What is your favourite HTML element?

Paragraph. I'm always writing paragraphs.

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

Get the boring metadata out of the way so I can forget to update it with the title and stuff after I finish the rest of the page...

14. Do you know JavaScript?

It scares me. I had to figure it out for the search over in the masterpost and it feels like the ugliest, most duct taped together code on my site. It works though! It does work! I hate it. Don't make me use Javascript, please.

15. How about PHP?

I know what it's used for and absolutely nothing else. That's why my site is hosted on Neocities and not my own server lol. Let the professionals deal with that stuff.

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

It's very consistently red, tan, and grey. Those are Sol Badguy colors, sure, but they're coincidentally the colors that hurt my extremely light sensitive eyes the least.

17. Are you more focused on content or design?

Content. My site started as a way to organize all the Guilty Gear fan content in one place (it used to be in a big Tumblr post), so the initial design sort of molded around all that stuff. Lately I've been thinking more about design and how to do graphics for layout decoration though (as opposed to pasting PNGs all over the place). We'll see how that goes.

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

No. It could be fun but I'm a cheap bastard and will ride the Neocities domain for as long as Neocities exists.

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

It seems like a lot of them are done by young people (anyone under 25) that weren't around when every website actually looked like that, and I think it's really cool. I wish more of them would try to create something of their own design instead of trying to mimic the style of what they think a "retro" site should look like, but I think a lot of them eventually will and are just using the "retro" theme as a way to learn coding and simple design, so it's not even really that "bad" that they do that. They're expressing themselves in a way modern social media utterly and completely fails to do, and discourages its users to even try to do. In short: I respect it.

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

None of my editors yell at me about it so... Probably?

21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?

Fun. Everyone should have one so we can all link to each other and show off each others' websites.

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

Kind of hilarious. I've found some cool sites by randomly clicking on buttons that catch my eye though.

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

Probably something different. Since this site mostly started as a community resource/utility, I'd want to do something that's for me and not something designed around what I think other people visiting it would expect. A lot of the new pages are like that, designed for me and no one else.

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

No. The cool thing about making websites is that it's unbelievably easy to view code, figure out how someone got something to work, and then doing your own take on it. I've seen some people get really defensive about others borrowing their code, but that's how EVERYONE learned how to code when I did my first layouts in the early 2000s. It feels against the spirit of the indie web to wall off knowledge like that. People like that seem in the minority though. I welcome others to take my crummy code and use it for their websites.

25. What text editor do you use?

Phoenix Code but I've done some stuff directly in the Neocities editor, VS Codium, and Notepad++ before. The first big boy editor I tried was Komodo Edit (which was recommended in the HTML/CSS For Dummies book mentioned up above).

26. Why do you use that one?

Phoenix Code's live preview is the only one I've found that updates in real time (instead of requiring you to save or refresh), but they recently (May 2026) added some gen AI bullshit so I've been trying other stuff that doesn't have that.

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

Almost all my images are hosted directly on Neocities but there are a few still on Imgur. Every file host ever dies eventually and I know Imgur will too.

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

...There's a debate..?

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

The Neocities dashboard says my total site size right now is 590.29 MB and it's used 1.38 GB in the past month.

30. Do you keep local backups of your files?

Yes. All of them.

31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?

Highly visual websites are more fun, but it can be kind of annoying if the website is some kind of directory and you need to play I Spy to figure out how to navigate it.

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

I kinda answered this by accident back up in question 16, but I tend to stick to the same colors because they hurt my eyes the least. Some of my pages are different colors though.

33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?

No. Sometimes I go a while without updating, but I don't take website coding seriously enough to ever consider formally "quitting" doing it.

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

I've got a few! You can check them out near the bottom of my main page. Though, I've never had a serious website programming discussion with any of them before haha... I don't think my skills are good enough to hold a conversation about programming; it all feels a bit like I'm a monkey banging on a keyboard.

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

Yeah. I've shown it to my parents before and most of my friends are at least vaguely aware of it.

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

Neocities says I've made 4,105 updates since I started my site almost 4 years ago (Jul 8, 2022). Probably it gets at least one update a month. A lot of those updates are from when I was editing directly on NC and had to push a save to check that my code worked, and each save counted as an "update" lol.

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

No, because it's a pain in the ass. I've got three layout "versions" though, for the main page and related pages. It's currently on "layout 3.0". The first layout was just a tweaked version of the sadgrl layout builder that didn't last very long, 2.0 was my first attempt at hand-written code (some pages still use this), and the current 3.0 layout is extremely heavily edited code from Theme Kings. It's so edited I don't even remember which layout I used as a template. Maybe the "Haze" layout?

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

It's split between "you-focused" and "hobby-focused."

39. Do you do web design professionally?

Oh god no.

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

Absolutely not. This is my one hobby I refuse to monitize. I will not code ANYONE a website for money. Figure it out. Steal my code and tweak the colors. I'm not doing it.

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

Sometimes people email me about website stuff or things they'd like to add to either the masterpost or doujinshi archive, but usually people just message me on Discord.

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

Yeah I've got a Bluesky and some other shit. I was really active on Tumblr once upon a time but the parasocial relationships on there became too much for me.

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 Telegram every day as a replacement for a text messaging app, and Discord sometimes for fandom stuff. I'm aware of Matrix but I don't know anyone that uses it enough to want to download and use it too.

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

Yeah I always have music going. It's usually metal. Lately I've been really into An Abstract Illusion, Bloodred Hourglass, and Yoth Iria.

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

Just one website. Managing more than one is too much work.

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

There's a bit of everything on here. It started as a purely Guilty Gear-focused site, but I'm getting bored of GG and have started making pages for other things.

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

I don't care enough to roleplay being someone else online. This is the only me.

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

There's no way to say this without sounding like my head is so far up my own ass I'm looking out through my nose, but I get a lot of messages from different people, and talk to a lot of different people regularly, so I don't often remember where or when I first started talking to someone and one day realize we've become friends because we've talked enough haha... I think Tetsuo was someone I first met through websites and not Bluesky, Tumblr, or Discord (where I usually talk to people first).

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

I am but an infant at programming and any issues I have with either language are likely a fault of my own inability to use them.

MIDWAY CHECKPOINT

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

Annoyingly tiny font. Like anything below 10px. I'm not zooming in to read that shit. Tiny font with low contrast too? Tab closed.

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

There isn't anything I feel strongly enough about to say others should do it too, tbh.

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

Generic structure...... A lot of semantic HTML tags don't actively affect how a page displays, so I keep forgetting they exist.

53. Do you consider different browsers?

Yeah. I try to make sure my code works on both Chromium and Firefox.

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

I like Brave (Chromium) because its safety/built-in adblock features are really convenient, but mostly because I've been using it since forever and I'm too lazy to fully change browsers. Zen and LibreWolf (both Firefox) are better. Maybe once one of them launches an Android version I'll finally move off Brave.

55. And what OS are you on?

Windows 11 and I hate it. Windows 10 on my gaming PC though.

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

I regret "upgrading" my laptop (which I'm typing this on) to Win11 from Win10 and should have stuck with 10. If I had another laptop I could play around with Linux on I would have, but I don't, and I need my computer to work with all my art programs; I don't have time to spend days/weeks troubleshooting obscure Linux issues. So, I'm stuck with Windows 11. Unfortunately.

57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?

For the most part. There are some pages (like the GameFAQS page) that don't really work on mobile and I have no desire to make them work on mobile either.

58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?

It's fine if it's animations/video, but if music autoplays then I mute the entire tab instantly.

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

They're fun!! I really like them and am in a few. They're on my front page, but I'm currently in the null webring, Self-Insert Webring, Transmasc Pride Webring, and the No AI Webring. I used to be in a few more that have since shut down though...

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

I've got one for the Outrage Mk.II and CoolGoku (my brown Aisha Neopet), but they're both super out of date and I'm unmotivated to do something cooler with them. My whole website is essentially a living Guilty Gear shrine anyway. I like shrines people make for really obscure stuff or ultra-specific stuff. Like idk a web shrine for a 5 episode anime OVA from 1989 that never got any additional media or one for vending machine bouncy ball colorways or something would definitely get my attention. I don't have examples to link for either of those though, I just made them up after thinking about stuff I would like to read about.

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

My layouts are kind of generic, honestly, and Japanese video game-focused websites are a dime a dozen. Maybe a little cliche. I don't know.

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

I don't really think about it that hard, I just wanted to make something I think is cool/useful.

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

I am an artist but a lot of the graphics on my site are ripped from official Guilty Gear media or old fanmade doujinshi. I'd like to replace my Carrd with my website some day though, but I need to make the assets and a better landing page for it. If it's gonna be focused on my art (Somnivagrious) and not Guilty Gear (Sol Radguy), I need to do 100% of it by hand and not use other people's works.

64. What are your favourite resource sites?

There's a big long list of them over on my "Backyard" page.

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

Apparently flexbox and those fancy CSS tables are the way of the future and me using float and weird DIV tags is some old man dinosaur shit haha! I'd like to figure out how to get better with using those methods some day.

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

This is going to sound rich coming from someone whose site has almost half a million views, but don't make a site with the goal of it getting a lot of page views because you'll be disappointed and it'll stop being fun and start feeling like homework to update. "Will people look at this?" "Will they think it's good?" Don't ask yourself that. Ask yourself, "Do I think this is cool?" and "Am I having fun designing/working on this?"

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

It's mostly in CSS, yeah.

68. What do you think of frameset layouts?

People have done some really cool stuff with frames. My GameFAQs page uses frames to load the .TXT files directly in the page instead of making the user open it in another tab or download it, but I've seen people do some really wild shit with it.

69. How about table-based layouts?

The HTML tables can be rough on mobile, but the CSS tables can do some really funky stuff. I don't know enough about it to really elaborate on this, but the idea is interesting.

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

Columns seem to be the easiest way to design a website and my website is stuck in columns too... I think sites that break away from those formats are more interesting to explore and look at though, like win99, ribozone, and Ita Toys, but I don't think sites that use columns are horrible or anything.

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

CSS... Ugh...

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

Not recently, but like 20 years ago, yeah.

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 them when I have some sort of goal/vision in mind for what kind of information would go on that page.

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

A little above beginner, a thousand miles below advanced. I've never taken a web design class and learn things as I go, when I need to learn them, and there are massive gaps in my knowledge. Probably some day I should sit down and do some online classes and save myself some effort in the future.

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

If the site is doing something really far-out and I wanna know how they did it I do. Or use Inspect to poke at it.

76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?

Stealing other people's code and poking at it to see what bits did what LOL

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

The code on my sitemap stops working how I want it to if I try to move the box that has the lists of links in it any further to the right, and I don't think it's supposed to be functional at all. It feels like the code on that page is under an extreme tension. It doesn't want to exist.

78. Thoughts on floating elements?

They're hard to control so I only really use them for throwing an image into the body of a text when I'm feeling lazy.

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

Percent usually. Saves time later when making the mobile layout.

80. Do you have a favourite font?

Inknut Antiqua is the one used on most of my pages for the body text (this text uses it), and New Rocker for some other detail bits. Inknut Antiqua has become ride or die for me though lol

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

I don't know if I could because I get really particular about how to do stuff and I don't think I would enjoy the process at all if I had to work with someone else whose workflow didn't fit mine.

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

Yeah. I browse the Activity tab on Neocities pretty often.

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

I have a really ugly pileup of website links in my Telegram saved messages that I really need to put on my Backyard page sometime very soon because it is getting out of hand. A lot of people have my website bookmarked or even linked to on their websites. It feels weird to have made something that other people like enough to want to use up space on their pages to share it with others.

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

The search function on the GG Masterpost page. No one has ever said anything nice about it and I don't think people understand how much of a pain in the ass it was to program even a basic search function that wasn't based on Google code. It was really hard!! I have to manually add each thing in it to a HUGE Javascript file, by hand!! I think people would be more impressed by it if they had seen what the older versions of the Masterpost were like when it was a massive ugly Tumblr post with 6,000 different links all thrown together in one space instead of the organized thing it is now, or when it was a Discord channel before that, full of dead links and no credits given for anything, or dead links that didn't even say what was supposed to be on the other side of the link.

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

I don't collect anything but I really enjoy 1970s and 1980s technology the most. Big ol' clunky things. Well, I did kind of collect VHS tapes there for a while when they were like $3 each, but now everyone wants them and they've gotten stupid expensive. Most of them don't even have good pictures anymore. I find it hard to believe people buying them for like $80+ actually watch them.

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

Too often and too long.

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

Guilty Gear nerds and otaku. I don't cater to anyone though. This is my website and GG nerds and otaku just happen to enjoy it also haha

88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?

Not really. My RSS feed is the only thing on my site that uses it and I only put in enough effort to make it viable and that's it.

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

I did some of the template code on the Guilty Gear Wiki, which involved figuring out Python, Lua, and some other one I forgot. I didn't really enjoy it. It was satisfying when it finally worked though.

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

I don't really understand what SSGs are and I don't believe I have ever used one either.

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

No, but Neocities tracks views for me on its dashboard. I don't really care to know because when I think about how many people have seen what I've made, I get kind of nervous about it. People have been extremely weird to me because I'm like "the guy" in the Guilty Gear lore community. I'm talking like stalking my Tumblr blog and sending me awful/weird messages any time I posted something they didn't like for over a year. The parasocial relationships are outta this world, man.

92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?

I farted around on the Dustloop Forum for a little bit and made some posts after Tarkus got it back online, but I'm kind of losing interest in writing any sort of longform posts about Guilty Gear media or whatever and haven't posted in a long while now.

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 it directly in the editor. It doesn't make sense writing text meant for my website in another editor and then having to go back through to add all the appropriate tags/styling when I can do both at once by typing it all in my editor.

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

I've been called cool before. More often than not people call me "rad" though. Get it?? Ha ha!

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

I wrote an analysis of the GG: Dual Rulers opening animation when they released it ahead of the anime and I was so disappointed by the anime and how the idea of it that I'd expected based on what it seemed like the OP was trying to tell us, that it's like the only Substack article I wrote from before I deleted my Substack entirely that isn't rehosted anywhere else. It's going to stay that way. Incidentally, the Substack was the original "Gunfire Guillotine," which is why this blog is "Gunfire Guillotine II." I don't remember where I got those words from or if I made it up. I don't even like guns.

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

I'd leave it up but I'd probably disable my guestbook.

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

I'm writing a 100 questions thing about myself. I do have a tendency to overshare though.

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

You'll have to wait until I update my MySpace top 12 to find out.

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

Generally, yeah. I have a free Neocities account and only have 1GB of free storage. Gotta make it count.

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

This was fun! I did it over several days though, which didn't exhaust me at all.