Web Site Design in 25 Steps
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 – eternity.
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