How to Build a Web Site

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 the 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 hear 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 -16.3E10" - 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.

And for some the final step is to hire a web designer! - Linda

Amen...

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Marrianne Williams
Stu Reilly Design
StuReillyDesign.com

Jego
"Been there, done that!...still doin' it!"