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.