How to Build a Web Page in 25 Steps 
(Forwarded by: Katarina & Will (Max) Plummer)
 
 
 
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

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