- Download Web authoring software. (20 minutes)
- Think about what you want to write on your Web site. (6 weeks)
- Download the same Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new versions since the first time you downloaded
it. (20 minutes)
- Decide to just steal 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, steal 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)
- Display a counter from your ISP. (4 minutes)
- Try to figure out why your counter reads "You are visitor number "-16.3E10." (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)
- Wait for someone to increment the hit counter and sign your guestbook. (months)
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