1. Download a piece of Web authoring software - 20 minutes.
2. Think about what you want to write on your Web page - 6
weeks.
3. Download the same piece of Web authoring software,
because they have released 3 new versions since the first time you
downloaded it - 20 minutes.
4. Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on
your site - 1 minute.
5. Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them
that you like - 4 days.
6. Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails,
download it again - 25 minutes.
7. Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar
buttons to see what they do - 15 minutes.
8. View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a
few words here and there - 4 hours.
9. Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software -
1 minute.
10. Try to horizontally line up two related images - 6
hours.
11. Remove one of the images - 10 seconds.
12. Set the text's font color to the same color as your
background, wonder why all your text is gone - 4 hours.
13. Download a counter from your ISP - 4 minutes.
14. Try to figure out why your counter reads "You are
visitor number -16.3 E10" - 3 hours.
15. Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text - 8 hours.
16. Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page
on your ISP - 40 minutes.
17. Accidentally delete your complete web page - 1 second.
18. Recreate your web page - 2 days.
19. Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your
ISP's server - 3 weeks.
20. Call a patient friend to find out about FTP - 30
minutes.
21. Download FTP software - 10 minutes.
22. Call your friend again - 15 minutes.
23. Upload your web page to your ISP's server - 10 minutes.
24. Connect to your site on the web - 1 minute.
25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps - eternity.
