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Everything started in my early teens. I had recently found out about a cool new website called 16 Personalities, so I went there and did the test. I got INTP, so of course, I went around boldly proclaiming I was the same type as Albert Einstein and a bunch of other intelligent people. Even better, turns out I wasn’t even actually an INTP.

That’s how my interest in typology started and continues to this very day. (If you’re not aware, typology is the categorisation of individuals based on personality traits.) It’s usually in the background of my mind, but from time to time it pops up back to full obsession status. I’ve long pursued being properly typed in every system, but in hindsight, I should’ve given up years ago.

Here’s a fun fact about me many people online seem to miss: I’m actually Brazilian. People read my messages and assume I’m a native English speaker, then they hear my accent speaking English and most assume I’m just a generic Brit, some say I’m Australian, a few guess I’m Irish, Scottish, “an American imitating a British accent”, anything except Brazilian. How did I end up like this?

What even is this blog? I rarely ever post anything. Is there an explanation to this? Yes, there’s always an explanation: I just don’t feel about writing about myself and my life.

Do you care about which flavour of ice cream I ate last Thursday, or my stupid opinions on the latest trendy anime? Do I care enough to write about it—or more importantly, is it worth to expose myself like this? No, it is not worth it and I do not care about writing about myself. One of the reasons social media tires so much is simply the information overload: sorry dear algorithm, but I could not give less of a fuck about @poopenfarten69’s new $300 shoes, and I can imagine you feel the same about me.

But… do I really not care? I’ve realised this is somewhat at odds with my conception of what good art can be. Of course simply sharing pictures of your overpriced possessions is meaningless, but can that be said about people out there who choose to create meaning by sharing snapshots of their lives?

First and foremost, this is not an HTML and CSS tutorial.

There are so many places online where you can learn how to get started in making websites, there’s nothing for me to add that could be better than what already exists out there. If you want my recommendation on where to begin, I suggest freeCodeCamp’s Responsive Web Design course, it is what got me going in the world of web design and I can’t recommend them enough.

If that’s not the case, then what is this blog post even about, you might ask? Let’s first talk about what design is at all. Design, as a discipline, was born out of the need to produce consistently repeatable objects in a newly industrial world. For consistently repeatable results, what do you need? Planning.

We aren’t building some boring Bootstrap template or a website for a canned tuna brand here, so we don’t need to have sticks up our asses like that. Still, like most things in life, it doesn’t hurt to plan what your HTML masterpiece will contain, and how it will look like, does it? It doesn’t. How do we go about that?