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| 1. |
Download a piece of Web authoring software |
20 minutes. |
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| 2. |
Think about what you want to write on your
Web page |
6 weeks. |
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| 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. |
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| 4. |
Decide to just steal some images and
awards to put on your site |
1 minute. |
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| 5. |
Visit sites to find images and awards,
find 5 of them that you like |
4 days. |
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| 6. |
Run setup of your Web authoring software.
After it fails, download it |
25 minutes. |
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| 7. |
Run setup again, boot the software, click
all toolbar buttons to see what they do |
15 minutes. |
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| 8. |
View the source of other's pages, steal
some, change a few words here and there |
4 hours. |
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| 9. |
Preview your Web page using the Web
Authoring software |
1 minute. |
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| 10. |
Try to horizontally line up two related
images |
6 hours. |
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| 11. |
Remove one of the images |
10 seconds. |
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| 12. |
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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| 13. |
Download a counter from your ISP |
4 minutes. |
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| 14. |
Try to figure out why your counter reads
"You are visitor number 16.3 E10" |
3 hours. |
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| 15. |
Put 4 blank lines between two lines of
text |
8 hours. |
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| 16. |
Fine tune the text, then prepare to load
your Web page on your ISP |
40 minutes. |
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| 17. |
Accidentally delete your complete web page |
1 second. |
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| 18. |
Recreate your web page |
2 days. |
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| 19. |
Try to figure out how to load your Web
page onto your ISP's server |
3 weeks. |
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| 20. |
Call a patient friend to find out about
FTP |
40 seconds. |
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| 21. |
As your friend gives instructions, put
down the phone and click like crazy |
10 minutes. |
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| 22. |
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. |
Upload your web page to your ISP's server |
10 minutes. |
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| 24. |
Connect to your site on the web |
1 minute. |
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| 25. |
Repeat any and all of the previous steps |
eternity. |
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...
and you wonder why anyone really needs a professional web designer when,
after all, you can "do it yourself"?!?! |