Download a piece of Web authoring software — 20 minutes.

Think about what you want to write on your Web page — 6 weeks.

Download the same piece of Web authoring software, because they have released 3 new versions since the first time you downloaded it — 20 minutes.

Decide to just steal some images and awards to put on your site — 1 minute.

Visit sites to find images and awards, find 5 of them that you like — 4 days.

Run setup of your Web authoring software. After it fails, download it again — 25 minutes.

Run setup again, boot the software, click all toolbar buttons to see what they do — 15 minutes.

View the source of others' pages, steal some, change a few words here and there — 4 hours.

Preview your Web page using the Web Authoring software — 1 minute.

Try to horizontally line up two related images — 6 hours.

Remove one of the images — 10 seconds.

Set the text's font color to the same color as your background, wonder why all your text is gone — 4 hours.

Download a counter from your ISP — 4 minutes.

Try to figure out why your counter reads "You are visitor number -16.3E10" — 3 hours.

Put 4 blank lines between two lines of text — 8 hours.

Fine-tune the text, then prepare to load your Web page on your ISP — 40 minutes.

Accidentally delete your complete web page — 1 second.

Recreate your web page — 2 days.

Try to figure out how to load your Web page onto your ISP's server — 3 weeks.

Call a patient friend to find out about FTP — 30 minutes.

Download FTP software — 10 minutes.

Call your friend again — 15 minutes.

Upload your web page to your ISP's server — 10 minutes.

Connect to your site on the web — 1 minute.

Repeat any and all of the previous steps — eternity.