InspireMari turns 15 years old

InspireMari Turns 15 Years Old!

Wow, time sure flies! I wanted to create a celebratory post about InspireMari.nl turning 15 years old this month. I purchased the domain in 2009, and since then, this personal blog has went through a lot of changes. However one thing remained constant: I always posted kawaii and beautiful visuals and…
September 30, 2024
New Mini Game: Can You Become A Billionaire?

New Mini Game: Can You Become A Billionaire?

Ugh, let's ignore how many days it took me to get this to work. x_x Yeah I'm not a programmer, so pardon me. It's working in an acceptable manner on Desktop (it works on mobile too, but it looks horrible unless you rotate your screen) and I do think it's a…
September 21, 2024
New Mini Game: Breaker

New Mini Game: Breaker

I actually designed this game a long time ago, but it finally found its place back on my website! Here is a game of Breaker! This game was the main reason I moved the Mini Games section to its own section on InspireMari.nl... it wouldn't work within my WordPress theme. :(…
September 15, 2024
Fireworks Mini Game

New Game: Celebrate with Fireworks!!

My new Mini Games page needs a lot of work still - please excuse the dead links and double listing of some games. ^_^; It's quite a lot of work to manage this separate from my WordPress blog, but I'm working really hard on new challenging, fun and relaxing games every…
September 9, 2024
new mini games page

New Mini Games Page!

In order to ensure that all Mini Games work well in your browser, I moved the mini games section to their own unique section on InspireMari! Sometimes, the scripts interfered with the WordPress scripts, making it extremely hard or even impossible to make the games run... So, I decided to give…
September 6, 2024
Cute Female Pikachu

A Cute Female Pikachu! (Pokemon Fanart)

Although Pikachu is one of my favorite Pokemon, I actually find it difficult to draw him* in a cute way. So I wanted to practice some more! *To me, Pikachu is a him. But in this case, I drew Pikachu as a girl. :3 In order to give the drawing a…
August 24, 2024
Tiled Backgrounds

New Page: Tiled Backgrounds

Tiled backgrounds, often referred to as "kabe" (壁) by Japanese webmasters, were a distinctive web design trend in the early 2000s. These backgrounds involved using small images or patterns that were repeated across the entire background of a webpage, creating a seamless and visually interesting effect. Whereas a lot of websites…
August 20, 2024
Free Blinkies

New Page: Free Blinkies!

I found a folder with blinkies that I made back in the day! And when I say "back in the day" I mean it: these are from 2004, lol! (Maybe even a year or two earlier, but this is their creation date.) I decided to make a free blinkies page, for…
August 19, 2024
Peng Friends

How Do I Find My Fandom Community Nowadays? A Genuine Question

There are a couple of things that I am passionate about. Pokémon being one of them. More specifically the earlier Pokémon series, and some of the Pokémon games. Back in the day, I used to browse Pokémon fan sites every single day. There was this website called Anipike.com which listed tons…
August 17, 2024
New Links Page

Today I Added an Old-fashioned Links Page!

Back in the early 00's, it was completely normal for web pages to link to one another - mostly similar websites. This was done via a so-called 'Links page'. This page featured buttons of 88x31 pixels and buttons of 88x15 pixels, sometimes animated. This allowed webmasters - as we were called…
August 16, 2024