OKTHEN|100

1. Please introduce yourself.: Hellooo!! As you might already know, my name is OKTHEN and I'm
still a student and I am the webmaster for this neocities site :D
2. How long have you been making websites?: According to Neocities (because I myself don't exactly remember
myself), I've been in this stuff since Oct 5, 2025
3. And what got you into the hobby?: A youtube video The Internet Used to Be a Place by Sarah Davis Baker
4. What kind of website are you most interested in?: Any website that's fun and interesting, with errm useful tips and graphics that can help me
5. What's your workflow? Do you plan your websites out thoroughly or do you come up with the design as you go along?: I do not plan out my website, I have a lot of Ideas. In the beginning I was worse than I am now, and because of that decide the aesthetic along the way
6. Please link to your biggest inspirations.: Definately: Ninjaweb, Dumbiee, and Goooby :3
7. What's your favourite part about making websites?: Learning all the awesome and interesting things I can actually do with html and css, just when I'm thinking to myself "Is there any way to (insert specific thing)?" So I look it up, and yes, ( o - o ) there is.
8. And the thing you struggle with the most?: coding, heh, or deciding on an aesthetic for my webpages
9. Do you keep the same layout on all of your pages? Or do you use different ones?: Nah I like to mix it up and try an assortment of differen't styles, I have noticed some reoccuring things I do for most of my pages though :P
10. How confident are you with CSS?: Nah fam, maybe confident in the simple stuff, and things I do usually
11. Do you know how to correctly use <dl>?: No, but it can't be that hard right?... Anyways, this is my first time actually interacting with dl, and I'm sure theres a whole assortment of interesting things you can do with it rather than put words 'n stuff.
12. What is your favourite HTML element?: gulp, uhhh, er um.. ?
13. If you're making a new web page from scratch, what is the first thing you do?: establish my divs, and more recently now, make it so it's display:flex;
14. Do you know JavaScript?: HEEEECCKKK NOOOOOO AUAUAGGHHHHH
15. How about PHP?: Never even met her
16. Does your website have a theme that you stick to?: No, or maybe the theme is suprise
17. Are you more focused on content or design?: Can't tell myself ngl, I think design
18. Do you own a domain name? If not, would you ever want to?: I don't, right now I have no ambitions to because, I don't have a need for one
19. What do you think of nostalgia-focused or "retro" websites?: AWESOME SAUCE
20. Is your HTML valid? Do you even check?: I sure hope so, what does this question mean (._. ; ) yes?
21. What are your opinion on buttons and banners?: I love to see them, not really interested myself, maybe because I haven't reached that point yet. I do have buttons, but they're pretty out of site and one day I'd like to make custom stamps because I think those look cuter.
22. What do you think of button walls in particular?: I find joy looking through them and seeing if I can snatch a few, and maybe add them to my own site, other than that it's just fun to look through and see if I can relate
23. If you started over again, would you make something similar or completely different?: Lol, as someone who did start over, I've made something completely different and I'm pretty sure as of now I haven't had a layout similar to thar. In the future, I don't know if I can make something completly different because I love having my webpages be different styles
24. Are you envious of other people's websites?: Not at all :P I think it's more important to focus on my own progress and instead of looking enviously look at those better than me with pride and inspiration:D
25. What text editor do you use?: I used to just use TextEdit, the notepad on MacBooks
26. Why do you use that one?: I didn't wanna download a whole new app, so I just used what was already provided
27. Do you host your image files on your web server, or on another host?: I host most of my images on the neocities provided err (._. thing
28. This might not be relevant to you, but what's your opinion on the Neocities vs. Nekoweb debate?: I didn't even know there was one, as a newgen I wouldn't be suprised that a debate like that would have existed, only because people like to make problems. I think it's dumb, like what are we even righting for? Which is better? I don't have an opinion :/ I've never used nekoweb, maybe in the future I will and give an opinion along the lines of "They both have their similar pros and cons so just use whatever you like"
29. How much server space would you estimate your main website takes up?: According to neocities (Mar 5, 2026) 6.9MB or 0.7% B)
30. Do you keep local backups of your files?: No...
31. Do you prefer simple or highly visual websites?: both have their own charms, maybe leaning on high visuals
32. Do you stick to certain colours? Do you do that on purpose, or is it your subconscious?: I go towards blue or pink, (._. perhaps because that's the colours I think are universally appealing
33. Have you ever thought about quitting? Why?: Way back wehn, v.1 of my website, complete newbie, didn't know what I was doing, youtube tutorials didn't help, I stopped for multiple months
34. Do you have many webmaster friends, or is it a solitary hobby?: sigh :,| naaah I have no friends on here, would I like any? I think it's hard to reach out, especially with the FUCKING EPSTIEN THING I can understand why people might not wanna interact with a minor
35. Do people in your real life know about your website?: Yes, I've told some friends and my siblings :)
36. Do you update your website very often? How often is "very often"?: Currently I do update very often, which is almost every day.
37. And the overall design, do you change that much? Why or why not?: After I establish a good design and layout that works and is visually appealing, I rather focus on other pages than constantly rearrange how it looks.
38. Is your website more you-focused, hobby-focused, or outside world-focused?: Me focused, I do have a media page that I plan to develop because I REALLY wanna talk about the type of media I consume, because I don't have someone in my life that's really interested in stuff I have to say :P
39. Do you do web design professionally?: lmfao
40. If not, would you like to? And if you're comfortable answering, what do you do for work?: Maybe as a side gig, I'm a student
41. Do you communicate with people by email very much?: Yes, I have gotten more errrr um emailer now that I have a website because I wanna join Webrings
42. Some people reject social media and use websites as a replacement. Do you keep social media outside of your website?: I do
43. How about instant messengers? Do you use a mainstream one like Discord or Telegram? Or something like Matrix? Do you avoid them?: I have discord, I don't use it as much anymore and the only reason I still have it is to communicate with my D&D members
44. Do you listen to music while you work on websites? If so, what kinds of artists?: Sometimes, recently fixated on music/covers by vtubers. Thats pretty generalized, like any song that I enjoy that's been sung or covered by a vtuber
45. Do you keep everything you make on one website, or do you have more than one?: Yeah
46. On a similar note, do you keep to one topic on your site, or many?: um, I have different pages with their own stuff
47. Do you present your real self, or at least try? Or do you construct a persona on purpose?: Nah, internet safetly bro. I like going my OKTHEN, also cuz I actually cooked with that username, like damn ok then...
48. Have you ever made a good friend thanks to your website?: No
49. Are you happy with the way HTML and CSS currently work?: Yeah
50. What are practices that you think people should avoid?: I currently don't have an opinion on that because I'm still relatively new to the whole thing
51. What about under-utilised practices, or things you think people should do more?: Personally, < span > o-o I keep forgetting it exists T-T I don't have an opinion on what other people should do more
52. Do you use a lot of semantic HTML? Or are you guilty of generic structure?: Holy chopped wtf does that even mean, am I cooked
53. Do you consider different browsers?: Uhh no (._. as someone coding on a macbook I have no Idea what other browsers might look on my site
54. Speaking of, what's your preferred browser? Convince your readers why they should use it.: Chrome, um chrome :D
55. And what OS are you on?: Mackboock :L
56. Do you have a strong opinion on that, or do you just happen to use it?: I just happen to be handed down a macbook
57. Are your websites mobile-friendly?: FUUUUHHH NAUH
58. What are your thoughts on autoplay?: No thoughts :P, I haven't encountered many websites that auto play
59. What are your thoughts on webrings? Are you in any?: YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSS I AM IN FOUR WEBRINGS I'M LITERALLY SO AHPPY: CookieRun, Hollow Knight, Animal Crossing, and Plants vs Zombies
60. Do you have any web shrines? What do you like to see in that sort of page?: I'd like to get started on that, however I should focus on what I already made before beginning something that should take most of my effort
61. Are your websites "cliche", in your opinion?: Maybe o-o
62. What is your ideal website? Are you striving for that, or for something else?: An Ideal website is when I look at a website and it makes me feel joy
63. Are you an artist? Do you draw or design your own assets?: I wouldn't consider myself an artist
64. What are your favourite resource sites?: Other sites (._. recently found Rachychel and Daniele which were extremely helpful :3 other than that sites like W3schools
65. Is there a habit you just can't get away from no matter how hard you try?: Not that I know of
66. What's your biggest advice for a new webmaster?
67. Do you keep all your styling in CSS? Or do you hard-code some?: I don't know how to answer this, yes I keep my styling in css? Kinda searched what hard code means, I didn't understand
68. What do you think of frameset layouts?: idk man this si getting too sophisticated ngl
69. How about table-based layouts?: Pretty nice
70. Do you subscribe to the ideas of "one-column", "two-column" and "three-column" layouts? Do you use any of these?: Wha
71. Do you spend longer on the HTML or the CSS?: Css
72. Have you ever made a page with no CSS? It's useful for your thoughts.: no familicious
73. Do you ever find yourself making layouts with nothing to put on them? Or do you only make layouts when the need arises?: uhh porbably more with minimal stuff in them
74. Would you consider yourself a beginner? Or advanced? Somewhere in the middle?: late beginner, is that a term
75. Do you have a habit of looking at the source code of websites you visit?: yeah
76. How did YOU learn how to make websites?: Other websites
77. Do you ever force elements to do things they're not supposed to?: uh idk probably by accident
78. Thoughts on floating elements?: Nah fam
79. When you're sizing stuff, what do you use first? Do you use px, em, %, or something else?: px first
80. Do you have a favourite font?: I don't, I don't even have a cool font on my site :C I want a cool font too
81. Would you run a website with another person? How would that work?: No idea
82. Do you surf the Web to find new personal websites very often?: Yeah, to find inspiration and when I'm bored It's fun to look around
83. Do you bookmark other people's websites? How would you feel knowing someone else bookmarked yours?: yes, and I'd be very happy
84. What do you want people to be most impressed with when they see your website?: Layout and aesthetic
85. Are you interested in technology outside of websites? Do you collect?: errr nooo
86. How often and for how long are you online?: like 3 hours minimum
87. When it comes to your website, who is your target audience?: I don't really have a target audience, never thought about that. My target audience is everyone and anyone
88. Have you ever been interested in XHTML?: wtf is that
89. Do you program in general? Have you ever written a program for use with or on your website, not counting simple JavaScript?: nooooooooooo
90. Speaking of programs that help you make websites, what do you think of static site generators (SSGs)? Have you ever used one?: whhaaatt
91. Do you keep a hitcounter? Why or why not?: maybe when I get more traction I'll put one on, I think it'd make me sad to see the numbers low
92. Do you frequent forums? Which ones?: uh no
93. Do you write your page content directly into the editor, or do you prepare it elsewhere, like a text document or a Word document?: Into neocities yes directly.
94. Do you think you appear cool to others? A more accurate answer now: do other people ever say you're cool?: in person sometimes, esp when meeting new people
95. Are you embarrassed of your old work? Have you ever deleted everything out of shame?: naaah not really
96. Would you close down your website if you couldn't update it, or would you leave an archive?: Archive
97. Do you reveal a lot about yourself on your website? Or are you more secretive?: I'm secretive, I'm nonchalant, I'm mysterious
98. Are you willing to reveal who your best online friend is, and/or if they have a website?: I don't have one bruh
99. And do you optimise the images on your website?: whaa
100. We're out of time! How do you feel after answering 100 questions? ....other than exhausted.: Exhausted

wow thanks for reading all of that, and if u skipped through, idk man (._. idc its whatever. Go make your own if you haven't yet :)

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