They seem so simple, but in fact they are so much more. Websites are something you encounter on a daily basis, but you never really realize the work that goes behind one. It's an organic, living being. If you change one thing, there is always the danger that everything else will shift as well.

But I succeeded; I built this website from scratch in notepad, and here it is. Up and running, working as a beast (except for when the webhost decides to stop working). From the outside this website looks just like any other website; maybe it looks a bit plainer, simpler, but in fact, the homepage only hides the tens of pages that make everything work.

Without you realizing it, there is even a log-in system, an admin system, and a framework that makes it easier to post items to this webpage; so I won't have to add every single post to the root file. Especially this last part was tricky. For comparison: the outlook and the main framework of the website took me about three hours to write and balance, but then the log-in system, the database and the framework for managing the posts took me about 10 hours. That is a total of 13 hours. Would you have guessed that this website took me 13 hours to build?