02: I'm a beginner at site creation, but do I have a chance of success (?)

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Even though I'm a beginner at creating a site in the first place, can I really realize a 'new form of novel' there...

Actually, it wasn't that I had no chance of success.

...The reason is that when I was in college, I would surf the net in the computer room during my free time between classes, andit was my hobby to analyze the structure of those sites.

At the time, I was an amateur with no knowledge of site creation and didn't even know how HTML documents (web pages) were structured...

(HTML stands for 'Hyper Text Markup Language' and is the 'language' used to create web pages.)

I would display the source code of the sites I visited, compare the strings of alphanumeric characters lined up there with the actual site screen, and play around with deciphering the code like solving a puzzle, thinking things like 'this string on this line is what changes the color' or 'this combination of strings is what displays the image'.

(I didn't understand things like JavaScript at all, so I only understood the very basic parts.)

Not only that, but after returning home, I would type the code into my own PC, build an HTML document from a text editor (like 'Notepad' in Windows), and enjoy 'checking the answers' of the source code I had deciphered.

(If you change the file extension when saving a document, it is possible to create an HTML document without website creation software.)

Back then, I had no interest in ordinary brain training, code games, or puzzle games, and only enjoyed doing that kind of deciphering work.

...Looking back objectively, I think to myself, 'What a weirdo...', but at the time, I thought, 'Isn't this much morepractical and better than games?'

I've forgotten quite a bit of what I learned back then during my few years of hiatus, but the intuition I gained at that time is still very useful for site creation today.

(Even now, I sometimes make quick fixes to some pages using Notepad without launching website creation software.)

In the end, since it's self-taught, I think my knowledge is quite biased... but at the very least, the fact that I don't have a rejection reaction to site creation work and can actually enjoy working on it has, I think, worked quite positively.

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