my go-tos are pinterest and tumblr! just search for "{color you want} background", so something like "pink background" or "blue background", and you'll get tons of results to scroll through.

i also recommend searching "sozai" right here on neocities itself. a lot of artists share their own f2u materials under that term, backgrounds included, so it's a great way to find stuff made specifically for personal sites like ours ♡

you can, technically! but i'd actually recommend the opposite: instead of merging your css into one file, put your css files into their own folder, something like /styles. that alone cleans up your dashboard just as much, without any of the downsides of one giant combined file.

a single huge css file gets hard to search through, and once it gets long enough it can even get slow to open and edit in the neocities editor. splitting it into a few smaller files (one for layout, one for colors, one for animations, etc) keeps each one focused and easy to find your way around.

i wrote a full tutorial on this exact setup, folders for every file type, how to link more than one css file to a page (and why the order you link them in matters), plus how to use comments to organize sections within a single css file: organizing your files. hope that helps, thank you for asking! ♡

it does loop here on my end, so nothing's broken! this is almost always because of a reduce motion accessibility setting turned on somewhere on your device. i actually go over this in the news ticker tutorial itself, at the very end (which is easy to miss, so i got you!): the ticker (and every other animation on this site) respects prefers-reduced-motion, a setting the browser reads straight from your operating system. if it's turned on, the animation is intentionally switched off instead of scrolling anyway.

that's also why it varies per device! it isn't a browser bug or a screen size thing, it's tied to a personal accessibility preference, so it can be on for one visitor and off for another even on the exact same page.

you can check/toggle the setting here:

• windows: settings → accessibility → visual effects → animation effects
• macos: system settings → accessibility → display → reduce motion
• ios: settings → accessibility → motion → reduce motion
• android: settings → accessibility → remove animations

so it's working as intended! if a visitor has that setting on, respecting it (instead of forcing the ticker to scroll anyway) is the whole point ♡