The "Do-It-Yourselfer's" 25 Steps
to Build a Web Page
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Download a piece of
Web authoring software |
20
minutes. |
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Think about what you
want to write on your Web page |
6
weeks. |
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Download the same
piece of Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new
versions since the first time you downloaded it |
20
minutes. |
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Decide to just steal
some images and awards to put on your site |
1
minute. |
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Visit sites to find
images and awards, find 5 of them that you like |
4 days. |
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Run setup of your Web
authoring software. After it fails, download it again |
25
minutes. |
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Run setup again, boot
the software, click all toolbar buttons to see what they do |
15
minutes. |
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View the source of
other's pages, steal some, change a few words here and there |
4
hours. |
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Preview your Web page
using the Web Authoring software |
1
minute. |
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Try to horizontally
line up two related images |
6
hours. |
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Remove one of the
images |
10
seconds. |
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Set the text's font
color to the same color as your background, wonder why all your text is
gone |
4
hours. |
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Download a counter
from your ISP |
4
minutes. |
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Try to figure out why
your counter reads "You are visitor number 16.3 E10" |
3
hours. |
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| 15. |
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Put 4 blank lines
between two lines of text |
8
hours. |
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| 16. |
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Fine tune the text,
then prepare to load your Web page on your ISP |
40
minutes. |
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| 17. |
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Accidentally delete
your complete web page |
1
second. |
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| 18. |
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Recreate your web
page |
2 days. |
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Try to figure out how
to load your Web page onto your ISP's server |
3
weeks. |
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| 20. |
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Call a patient friend
to find out about FTP |
40
seconds. |
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| 21. |
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As your friend gives
instructions, put down the phone and click like crazy |
10
minutes. |
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| 22. |
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Discover that you hung
up on your friend while clicking like crazy; redial |
5
seconds (you used the "redial" button). |
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| 23. |
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Upload your web page
to your ISP's server |
10
minutes. |
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| 24. |
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Connect to your site
on the web |
1
minute. |
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| 25. |
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Repeat any and all of
the previous steps |
eternity. |