HOW
TO BUILD A WEB PAGE IN 25 STEPS
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.
 
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