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I now have an online resume/website.
I would be delighted to receive any and all feedback.
Right now the site is in its first/rough draft stage. I created it in a free trial program that has many restraints. But I wanted to get something up and running, while I learn how to use a real program like Dreamweaver.
Thanks in advance for any help/comments anyone might offer.
I would be delighted to receive any and all feedback.
Right now the site is in its first/rough draft stage. I created it in a free trial program that has many restraints. But I wanted to get something up and running, while I learn how to use a real program like Dreamweaver.
Thanks in advance for any help/comments anyone might offer.
posted by anne | 7:54 PM
9 Comments:
It's beautiful! I love the seashells.
In Firefox on my Macintosh, the graphics in the "Organizational Development" page are a little below the white space and down into and over the text - I'm not sure if it looks the same in Firefox on a PC or not. It makes the text a little hard to read, and I really like the text (and the graphics) so separating them would probably be worth it...
Wow! I just looked at the page source - did you hand code this all yourself? Very cool. And you used "div"s which I still don't understand. That's inspiring! Now I want to learn how to do that.
Yup, I see the same graphics placement problem in the PC version of FF. I had a lot problem with graphics placement when I was doing the header for the original Coerablog. Explorer responded better to one method of placement, FF to another. So I know the grief!
I think piece/peice is misspelled on the Marketing page. I would definitely recommend the graphics link to larger versions of themselves, or maybe even pages detailing the kind of work you did on them, what else you can do with that kind of piece, etc.
On your resume, I would recommend saying "more than doubling" instead of "increasing by 100%+". Additionally, I was told recently that you don't need more than your last three jobs on your resume, unless something in the past displays a skill you really want to highlight and isn't in the last three jobs (but even that looks funny). I would also recommend leaving off the interests (anything relavent for a resume could be up in the objective, I guess), and breaking each skill into a seperate line, so they each get a chance to hit the eye.
Sorry! I meant to just offer a couple of suggestions. You did a really good job on the website! If the above is what you were interested in, I could try to go through it in detail..
Thank you so much, both of you.
I really appreciate the feedback. I have some ideas already to fix the graphics and that's a good idea with the blow up pics.
I'll investigate more into the resume. One of the reasons I wanted a whole website is because a resume should only be one page. I wanted there to be a place where potential employers could get the whole picture about me.
Do you have a response to that concern, Bryan? Do you get the idea that it is considered unprofessional to include the extra info?
Thanks again. I really appreciate all the help & support.
Oh, yeah, Jill...I'm sad to say I did not write a single line of code. That was all done in a silly little program called CoffeeCup. :( Hope you're still inspired though :)
Hmm... Maybe you could change the Contact page to a About/Contact Me page? I do think it would be better to separate that from your resume, and also to head your resume with traditional contact information, so a potential employer could simply print the page, if they so desired, and have a full and standard resume right there. There's nothing wrong with providing additional information about yourself, but I think it's better if it's separable. Imagine a printed version of that page showing up in a stack of twenty other hardcopy resumes, and decide what you'd want on it then. That's what I'd recommend, anyway.
Here's a few more suggestions, if you'd like them: Change the name of the pages from Page1.html, etc. to something that's a little more descriptive. Since the shells are your left-nav, it would be helpful to at least have the clue in the status bar of where they're leading us.
Also, since you have your own doman name (very cool!), maybe provide an Anne@annedavis-professional.com address instead of the more generic hotmail address? I know some employers, especially of contractors or freelancers, would consider the generic email address to be a little unpolished.
i love this idea. and it looks great - everything i was going to mention bryan and jill have done a better job of. but i will say that the spacing thing came up with safari (mac) for me also.
All I have to say is Anne you're really talented!!!!!!!!
You've just raised the bar for the rest of us. How am I ever supposed to get a new job with people like you out there?! It is just my personal preference, but in the first paragraph of 'Organizational Development' I would use a verb other than "man." Perhaps "run," "support," "make up," etc.
Thank you, thank you.
Keep the great/helpful comments a'comin'!
Thanks!
This is so neat!
What I've found with image placement within text is that the only thing that works consistently across browsers and text sizes is table. It's cheating, but it works. Even though css is the coolest thing in the world, absolute positioning often doesn't work exactly like you want it to. :)
I'd recommend sticking the images in the spaces where you have all of the breaks in the text now, and that might be enough to space it correctly, too. Dunno. Again, it's old-school, but reliable.
-Katie
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