25 Steps to creating a web page

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, follow with an extremely LOUD scream. ~ 10 seconds {1 to delete, 9 to scream}.
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.