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 texts 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 ISPs 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 ISPs server – 10 minutes.





24. Connect to your site on the web – 1 minute.





25. Repeat any and all of the previous steps – eternity.