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.
Course Creating an Online Resume: Hands-On Training
Author Laurie Burruss
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Release Date 2009-09-24
Duration 2.40 hrs / 58 tutorials
Work files Yes
Price $ 49.95
Retail price $ 99.95
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1. Online Resume Formats and Distribution Methods
Overview 01:52
Distributing your resume 03:29
Resume formats 06:43
Comparing good and bad resumes 11:03
2. Typography
Striving for fluidity, not rigidity 05:12
Font types, web-safe fonts, and font measurements 10:44
Principles of typography 10:35
Online resources and applications 11:29
3. Creating a Basic Online Resume
Setting up the web site folder 02:46
Defining the web site 03:43
Setting up a custom workspace 05:26
Creating a new web page with resume content 04:56
Marking up header tags 03:53
Inserting tags for unordered lists 03:43
Inserting tags for definition lists 03:12
Formatting URLs 05:23
Creating and linking an external style sheet 05:09
Styling the body tag 15:30
Styling the header tags 08:06
Styling the paragraph tags 04:03
Styling an unordered list 03:48
Styling a definition list 06:01
Creating a custom class style 04:20
Creating a custom ID style 03:32
Applying a print-specific CSS layout 02:54
4. Going Beyond the Basics
Creating a new document in Fireworks 06:15
Creating a background tile in Fireworks using Gradient Fill and Texture Fill 05:59
Slicing background tiles in Fireworks 02:37
Optimizing and exporting background tiles in Fireworks 06:12
Creating background tiles using online applications 06:05
Creating a page-like resume 03:50
Deleting unneeded CSS styles for this resume version 01:56
Adding a Wrapper div 03:33
Styling the Wrapper div 08:52
Controlling the vertical spacing 01:24
Zeroing out margins and creating a faux drop shadow 05:41
5. Creating a Pro Version of Your Resume
Setting up the HTML and CSS documents 02:15
Deleting unneeded CSS styles for the pro version 01:12
Creating the Header div 03:37
Creating the Content div 02:25
Creating the Sidebar div 02:20
Styling the Wrapper and Sidebar divs 04:56
Styling the Content div 03:07
Styling the Header div 03:33
Nesting a div tag inside the Sidebar div and styling the sidebar content 06:21
Inserting images to create rounded page edges 04:12
Styling images 03:59
Clearing floats 03:55
Creating font-size style for the Body tag 02:13
Fine-tuning resume styles 04:38
Adding a border to the Content div 02:38
Linking to a PDF 04:58
Organizing styles in the CSS panel and inserting comments in the style sheet 04:42
Creating and styling a print style sheet 08:56
Conclusion
Goodbye 01:33

 
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