Keeping things lite
I realized after reading a couple of first time bloggers words last week that it's become too serious around here. Creating this thing is what makes it fun for me, but both content and code have become a hindrance. I've dug myself into a 600px wide hole.
Things need to be more agile. The markup needs to be smarter so that I can write style sheets with more freedom. During the next few weeks I'm going to clean up the old posts to lessen the dependence on width. Once that is complete I plan to lighten things up a little. First on the content side by writing and sharing more freely, secondly I'll be adding categories to bring some more organization to the site, and finally on the presentation side by experimenting a little. JavaScript, Flash, colours (outside the grayscale), heck maybe even a few images will all be explored. That doesn't mean it's going to look like a MySpace profile. I really just want to revert this site into the experimental state that I once felt it was.
I have a series of articles in the works centered around creating HTML resumes. It will likely be a three scene act; "1. Creating your resume page structure by hand" which will show how to create a lightweight wireframe, "2. Creating a killer HTML resume" that will explain in fine detail how to create something spectacular, and finally "3. Enhancing your resume with microformats" where I'll touch on hResume and some vCard stuff that can take your resume beyond the screen and print and into an address book with ease. I might put together a gallery of sample style sheets that people can use also.
Beyond that there's a lot of drafts in the queue that are still in need of being published. Hopefully the history graph continues its accent.
Apr 9, 2007
11:35 pm
you should work on an on device app that automatically generates a resume for you based on your input ;)
Apr 10, 2007
7:43 am
Har Har... very funny Adrian.
Apr 10, 2007
6:03 pm
I've actually considered that as I've been doing resumes for some friends, and ultimately it was just replacing their content with mine, and modifiying my stylesheet a little bit.I hope to do it during the week I've got between terms to learn some web app stuff.
Apr 10, 2007
9:58 pm
The problem with something like that is everyone's resume will look the same, or similar with different style sheets. I think that something more diverse would suit. Maybe creating an application that will allow you to input everything then to be able to pick and choose your styles for each section of your resume. That would give it the unique touch a resume must have. But again you would have to have many styles available to create something very unique.
Apr 10, 2007
10:54 pm
It would be really neat if everyone marked it up in a proper microformat, then the employer (or Jobmine) could parse them and display them in their own way. It would open up a lot possibilities. On another note, this is a pretty cool webapp: http://hresume.weblogswork.com/hresumecreator/