How To Build A Web Page In 25 Steps

Download a piece of Web authoring software ~ 20 minutes.

Think about what you want to write on your Web page ~ 6 weeks.

Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new versions since
the first time you downloaded it ~ 20 minutes.

Decide to just copy some images and awards to put on your site ~ 1 minute.

Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them that you like ~ 4 days.

Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails, download it again ~ 25 minutes.

Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar buttons to see what they do ~ 15 minutes.

View the source of others' pages, copy some, change a few words here and there ~ 4 hours.

Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software ~ 1 minute.

Try to horizontally line up two related images ~ 6 hours.

Remove one of the images ~ 10 seconds.

Set the text's font color to the same color as your background, wonder why all your text is gone ~ 4 hours.

Download from your ISP ~ 4 minutes.

Try to figure out why yours reads "You are visitor number 16.3 E10" ~ 3 hours.

Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text ~ 8 hours.

Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page on your ISP ~ 40 minutes.

Accidentally delete your complete web page ~ 1 second.

Recreate your web page ~ 2 days.

Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your ISP's server ~ 3 weeks.

Call a patient friend to find out about FTP ~ 30 minutes.

Download FTP software ~ 10 minutes.

Call your friend again ~ 15 minutes.

Upload your web page to your ISP's server ~ 10 minutes.

Connect to your site on the web ~ 1 minute.

Repeat any and all of the previous steps ~ eternity.

PAGE DEDICATION

To My Friend

Linda C.

Thank you for sending this to me. It reminded

Me of all the fun we had several years ago.

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"The Entertainer"