Creating an Online Resume

Many of you will be looking for jobs soon (if you haven't started already). Lynda.com has an online training course on creating your own online resume. (Description below). You can see what the course includes at http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=760

If you'd like to watch it, just ask the lab consultant on duty to long you in to Lynda.com.

In Creating an Online Resume: Hands-On Training, interactive design professor and enthusiastic educator Laurie Burruss teaches how to produce an online resume—and create a first web site in the process. Laurie suggests structure and information needed to create a winning resume, and shows how to design the pages with simple typographic principles and effective layouts. She explains how to use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and control the design and structure of HTML documents through hands-on development. Exercise files with additional supporting materials accompany the course.

Topics include:

• Creating a simple text document for use inside Dreamweaver
• Formatting HTML tags with semantic or meaningful markup such as unordered and definition lists
• Externally linking a Cascading Style Sheet to a web page
• Creating and applying unique styles to XHTML documents using HTML tags, compound selectors, custom classes, and IDs
• Creating tiling background images in Fireworks
• Using the DIV tag in combination with CSS to create effective layouts that organize content
• Applying principles of web typography