Are websites a form of art?

It is no secret that I enjoy making websites: I've redesigned this one three times (up to now), made a website for my Kerbal Space Program schenanigans, re-created Windows XP and Windows 9x windows entirely within HTML and CSS, and have a boilerplate repository for creating new website designs because I do it often enough.

The question of whether websites can be a form of art has been one that has occured to me a few times whenever I've made a new website design for fun. It's a fairly easy question to muse on and decide an answer to but probably depends on a person's definition of art.

One definition of art could be something that uses a being's creative powers to make something as a result of their creative ideas in which every website created would be classifiable as art as it requires creativity to decide the design that one would want to bring out of themselves onto a blank web document (canvas if you like).

Another definition of art could be something that represents some form of the artist's expression or soul in which it reflects in some way on the artist's identity or form. This definition muddies the water a little bit.

Personal websites are undeniably art as is implied by the name, they are personal websites, they are made by a person as a representation of themselves on the internet. But does the second definition of art exclude websites made for corporations or businesses?

On one end of the scale, corporate websites are created not to embody the personality of the designers but the image of the business it represents, in which this could be construed as not being art in the sense if you consider a pre-requisite for art is the representation of the artist itself in the work produced.

Conversely, corporate websites are still designed by someone and in spite of probably receiving design briefs, a web developer or designer will still have a kernel of themselves within websites they design for the representation of businesses and their brand image. The designer will still have their preferred design systems, their preferred way of making things, there is still ultimately a living element within websites designed to represent non-living business entities.

Ultimately, the decision to classify websites as art is up to interpretation as with every form of art that goes beyond what is traditionally called art. The same question has been asked for experimental music like John Cage's 4′33″, and experimental art. This one believes herself that websites should classify as art in the same way that experimental music is classified as art: the mere existence of it was as a result of a creative being making it from their own will, whether that was motivated by money or otherwise.