Here are the answers to the questions you asked me. Of course you can ask me more and I will add the answers to this post along with a plug to your website.

Meli asked: If you could only have one talent, but you could do it better than anybody else that’s ever existed, what would it be?

Hm this is a hard one. I love art so I would say anything art but that leaves it so broad. I guess if you’re the best out of everyone in the world then it wouldn’t matter because you would be the best no matter what. Then I guess I would choose illustration because it is what I love doing and to be the best would be awesome. I love this question there are so many I could choose. Wouldn’t it be great if you were the best at say something like Inventing and then you would become the worlds greatest inventor instead of Edison, Da Vinci, Einstein or Ford (and whoever else deserve to be on the list).

Clem asked: What is one (or more) band or singer than you listen to but that you wouldn’t want to admit to anyone? (I love the question because it’s so evil…)

You evil little girl. No, seriously this question doesn’t bother me. I will happily admit to some bands/singers that others (including yourself) would cringe to. I like Britney Spears I admit, I even listen to Avril Lavigne, I even like ACDC. I have a mixture of pop, rock, 80’s and rap on my iPod. The one I am probably (the slightest) embarrassed to admit is Eminem. I love Eminem but I know a lot of people don’t appreciate his music and they usually turn their noses up when I admit I love his music.

Lil asked: If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?

I like this question. I reckon my superpower would be either invisibility because being invisible at any moment whether to hide/snoop/play around would be fun. The other power I would probably like even more would be something to do with the ocean, as I love water (I hate heights so flying superpowers are out of the question) and have always wanted to be a mermaid. So maybe a power to be able to live/breathe/talk under water.

Mari asked: When did you start designing websites?

I first started about 5 or 6 years ago. You can read my web history for more detailed info.

Did you ever have a horribly awful website that you are embarrassed to have owned?

I don’t think I have had a ‘horribly awful’ website though I have been quite embarrassed by my old websites. Mainly because I once suffered from weborexia and my sidebars were around 3cms (just over 1 inch) in width. But even then I still used my own images and/or artwork, I never used celebrity images apart from the occasional Delta Goodrem layout-with pictures I took myself. Back when I first started making websites I had one for paint tutorials and the layout was full of iframes. The site was only viewable on IE with a res. of 800×600 with bright cyan backgrounds in the iframes. Yuck!

Malin asked: What’s your number one wish right now?

Right now? At this very moment I am writing these answers at work to my own email so I can post them later. At work it’s boring right now so I wish something fun would happen. But in general, my wish would is that I will one day be able to afford a house of my own and to never have to rent again. I can’t wait to own a home and paint murals on the bedroom walls, and to settle down and have a family.

Lily asked: If you were a rubber duck, what would your name be?

This has to be the most different question I have been asked so far. When I was little I had a yellow rubber duck that wore pink lipstick and had a pink heart on its back. I think her name was Ducky, but I wouldn’t call myself that, I would want to be something unique from all the other rubber ducks. I used to have 3 ducks called MooMoo (she had a cow print pattern), Daffy (spitting image of daffy duck) and Brownie (because she was brown) So as you can see I am pretty lame when it comes to naming ducks. I guess I would call myself Boo, only because its my online nickname.

Cori asked: How is freelancing for you and would you ever make it your full time job?

I don’t think I could ever make freelancing a fulltime job. There were times when I could have, but more often than not there are dry spells where there is just not enough work to live on. It wasn’t until I got my first real “graphic design” job that I met with a lot of clients who would (and many did) employ me via freelance or spread the word about my skills etc. Now that I have a fulltime job that I love (but the hours are so stressful) I have been offered a lot of website design work, which I try to fit into my weekends but I usually don’t have time. If I had all these offers last year I probably would have made it a fulltime job.
The web design work is all that really pays, as well as some graphic design service, but my illustrations never seem to be needed/wanted. I had one lady ask to hire me on commission to do 20 vector illustrations. I almost agreed to it until she told me she wanted them for $3 each, which to me is way too cheap for an illustration let alone a vector. But she still got one free one out of me as I offered to do a free one (before I knew how much she wanted to pay) so I could seal the deal. It is hard to get work even if you have all the talent in the world, you really need the contacts. It’s especially hard because of where I live and graphic design is very remote.

I don’t know why you would want the worlds longest sidebar, its just a waste of space, waste of loading time and pretty much pointless. There is a site aiming to get the worlds longest sidebar. Whatever floats your boat, I say.

Here’s a list of things to add to your sidebar to make it the worlds longest, however it may take you a while to beat this sidebar

1. The first thing you need to do is starve your sidebar of width and make it at the most 2 inches wide. It is best of course for your sidebar to be really skinny at around 2.5 cms (1 inch), because everyone knows the skinnier it is the more information gets squashed down making it longer. Tall and skinny is the way to go, none of this fat and short stuff.
2. Make a button wall or plug board in your sidebar. Fill it with as many links as possible. Don’t use text links. Make sure they are cute little button images that stack on each other causing the sidebar to grow taller.
3. Now add the special links with slightly bigger buttons that you charge your visitors to put there. Make sure you have two or three and then put a text link asking anyone else to buy an ad.
4. Add a description of yourself and your website. About me and Domain pages are so 2002, why not just squeeze all the information into the sidebar so no one has to click on pages they don’t need to when they can see it all before them.
5. Add a currently/updates sidebar plugin or twitter extension. But don’t limit yourself to the normal three small excerpt updates. No, you need to bloat your sidebar right up, so use at least ten updates showing at one time, and make sure they are the full update. Small blurbs are so last month.
6. Now chuck in a camwhore image for good measure. Not only making the cam image clickable, also provide 3 text links beneath it telling us to click on the cam image.
7. Throw in an advertisement or two. Nice big banners.
8. Link to every contest known to man to increase your chances of winning, and increase the length of your sidebar
9. Hey why not advertise for more. Google Adsense is your best friend. Put in 3 or 4 small box ads, or better yet use a long ‘skyscraper’ ad.
10. Hey we love ads don’t we? Lets add some more advertisements, this time to advertise all the PayPerPost and “make money online” because there’s nothing better than showing someone how desperate we are for some cold hard cash.
11. More ads. If you are going for text links make sure you have at least ten, if image links make sure you have at least five.
12. With all these ads on your sidebar you’re going to want some advertising back. So throw in a few “link me” buttons and a text area code box to boot.
13. Add 30 or so text links to various myspace layout sites and the like, you know, the ones with the high page rank and if you link them they link you. This is the ‘commercial’ affiliates list. Of course the the personal sites affiliate list is next.
14. See what did I say. Put 10 or more affiliate links here.
15. Think we were finished yet? Apparently not so. Heres where you put a bunch of traffic boost links, because we are so desperate for link backs with all the outgoing links clogging up your sidebar.
16. Nice. Put in a big “support this site, donate money to my paypal” link.
17. Join every topsite under the sun and then link their buttons in the sidebar. You need to join at least 15 topsites.
18. Oh God, we still aren’t finished. Do you not want the longest sidebar in the world? Of course you do, so fill this space with a clutter of rotation links. I stopped counting after 51, so we know you are on the right track if you have at least 50 rotation buttons here. At least.
19. Here is where you list the listings you have joined. Glitter, rejuvenated, ablaze, every listing that will accept you.
20. Put your stats here. Show how many are online, how many have visited in total, how many have visited today, and why not put a few links to your extreme checker and other statistics sites.
21. Put in your archives right near the bottom, because it is a common task for the visitor to scroll right down to the bottom to read your archives. Hey at least they will see all those button links and affiliates, that’s what you want right?
22. Random links go here. Anything random that didn’t fit in the other lists above, or just a bunch of buttons to make your sidebar extremely long. Look we’re nearly there.
23. Yay, add your credits here and you are all done.
24. But of course you can add some more junk like clocks, calendars, flash widgets, lastfm, music players and more. Just trawl the myspace layout sites and they will have plenty of crap to chuck in here. You could always add some more Google ads too.

Now of course this was completely satirical and is not meant to be taken seriously.

When Amanda first asked us to ask her questions I wanted to make a post asking my readers to ask me some of their own questions. Because my internet was disconnected and my work computer blocks my site I couldn’t make a post which really annoyed me.

Now that I finally got around to my dad’s to make a post about it I see that almost everyone on my blog reader list has done the same. So I guess I am now jumping on the bandwagon, so to speak, and being a copycat by asking telling you to ask me a question, or three.

So ask anything you want, I do not care how serious, funny or stupid the question is, I will answer all honestly. I probably wont be online for a few days but when I do come back I will (hopefully) have enough questions to post in my next blog.

PS. I have added a new article in the visitor section and I have a few more on the way.