Laurie Burruss – Creating An Online Resume: Hands-On Training

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.

Loads of example exercise files to follow along with during the videos – great for creating both print and web ready resumes that really pop and get you noticed.

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