Creating a Web Page Résumé

In this module, you will create your Web page résumé. Creating a résumé on the Web may provide you with a strategic advantage because you will be able to give prospective employers the World Wide Web address of your résumé. This shows you have network savvy that can benefit an employer in an information society. On the Web, your résumé will be presented in color with hypertext links that make it quick and easy to read and to find information. You will be able to print your résumé from the Web; the printed version will be neatly typeset with professional-looking fonts, headings, graphics, and bulleted lists of your qualifications and accomplishments.

After completing this module, you will be able to:

• Create a file folder for your Web pages.
• Use Netscape Composer or Microsoft FrontPage to create a new HTML file.
• Enter your own content into the Web page.
• Create new paragraphs on a Web page.
• Make lists on a Web page.
• Put pictures on a Web page.
• Tile a background onto a Web page.
• Create named anchor bookmarks on a Web page.
• Create links to named anchor bookmarks.
• View the Web page with your favorite Web browser.

Reading

Read Chapter 18 of the Internet Literacy textbook to study the concepts covered by this module.

Online Activities

Now that you know how HTML works, you are ready to put your new knowledge to work. This module takes you through all the steps needed to build your own online résumé with text, graphics, and links to other Web pages. The following checklist summarizes what you need to do and tells you where to turn if you need help.

• Before you can create a Web page, you need a place to store it on your computer. That place is known as a file folder. Chapter 18 begins by showing you how to make a file folder called website in which you will create your pages in this course.
• The first step in creating a new Web page is to get your Web page creation software running. In this course, you have your choice of using Netscape Composer or Microsoft FrontPage. Table 18-1 steps you through the process of getting started. If you want to use Microsoft FrontPage, and it is not yet installed on your computer, run the Microsoft FrontPage CD that came with your textbook to install the 45-Day Trial Edition of Microsoft FrontPage.
• To create a new Web page, follow the steps in Table 18-2.
• To give your Web page a title, follow the steps in Table 18-3.
• To write a heading on your page, follow the steps in Table 18-4.
• To save your page, follow the steps in Table 18-5. If this is your resume page, save it in your website folder and make its name be resume.htm.
• While you are creating a new Web page, you will want to have a look at it with a Web browser from time to time so you can see how it's going to appear on the Web. To preview your new page with a Web browser, follow the steps in Table 18-6.
• To start a new paragraph, follow the steps in Table 18-7.
• Bulleted lists help organize content on Web pages. To create a bulleted list, follow the steps in Table 18-8.
• Horizontal rules create neat-looking dividing lines between different parts of a Web page. To learn how to insert a horizontal rule after the bulleted table of contents in your résumé, follow the steps in Table 18-9.
• As you create the different sections in your résumé, it will grow too long to fit on the screen all at once. To make it easy for the user to find the different parts of your résumé, you can insert bookmarks known as named anchors into your document. Then you can link each item in your résumé's bulleted list of topics to its corresponding bookmark to make it quick and easy for the user to find that section. To learn how to create a named anchor bookmark, follow the steps in Table 18-10.
• To learn how to link to a named anchor bookmark, follow the steps in Table 18-11.
• Web pages often contain a return-to-contents link that helps the user navigate. To learn how to create a return-to-contents link in the Education section of your résumé, follow the steps in Table 18-12.
• There are more than fifty million documents on the World Wide Web. You can link your résumé to any document for which you know the URL. To learn how to link to a URL, follow the steps in Table 18-13.
• It is customary for Web page owners to include a mailto link to their e-mail address to make it easy for you to contact them. When you click such a link, an E-mail dialog appears, automatically addressed to the Web page owner. To learn how to put a mailto link on your Web page, follow the steps in Table 18-14.