Publish your CV on the web!
There are several parts to this task but they broadly consist of four stages
(a) acquire and install a text editor capable of editing and showing a Web based version of HTML files
(b) download the sample html files
(c) edit the HTML files (written for Mike Hart at the moment) and substitute your own information
(d) publish your version to the web
(a) acquire
and install a text editor capable of editing and showing a Web based version of
HTML files
One of the smallest and easiest to acquire and install is HTMLed from
Internet Software Technologies (IST). You need the simple HTMLed version. Download the 32-bit version 2.0d written for
Windows 95/98. Save it to a safe
location on your hard-drive – I generally make a folder called ‘downloads’ and
put downloaded products there so that I can find them again more easily. Make your folder first (i.e.now!) if you do
not have it already.
You can acquire HTMLed here.
It may install automatically once downloaded – but if not, merely click
on its name in the folder where you have saved it (using Windows Explorer)
(b) download
the sample html files
Before you start to download the files you will need to know where to put
them. Make a folder on your hard drive
with your initials as its name (either 2 or 3 ) In my case, the folder would be called ‘mch’. Now download the zipped html file into your
‘downloads’ folder or a similar place on your hard drive. Unzip the files into your own folder (known
by your initials).
You can download the zipped file here.
(c) edit the HTML files (written for Mike Hart at the moment) and
substitute your own information
Run the HTMLed editor and point it
to your own CV folder (‘mch ‘in my case – your own initials in yours).
Substitute your own information for mine.
As the test is colour-coded, you only need to edit those sections
coloured black (and not all of that) Do not edit anything you do not
understand, although HTML rules are fairly simple.
Before you start, it is probably a good idea to configure your editor as
follows:
- Options à Preferences àEditor
Font (Change to Courier New, 10)
- OptionsàPreferencesàColorsàQuoted
(Change to brown, 1st column, 4th row)
Some tips that you might need to know
are:
- new lines are generated by writing a
<br> tag
- excess spaces are removed by browsers
(which do not work like word-processors).
It is conventional to put in extra spaces by using the following tag
<img src=”spacer.gif” height=”1”
width=”1” alt=”*”>
altering the width to whatever fits the bill.
- You have 6 pages to edit in total
(index.html, page1.html, page2.html,
page3.html, page4.html, page5.html).
Do not change any of these filenames
(as otherwise your links will not work).
Also. it is very important that your first file is called ‘index.html’
as this is what a browser looks for in your webspace.
- Check out one change at a time by
testing it out in the browser (the large IE button on the top row, right hand
side of the editor)
- Remember to save the files you have
been working on. Your CV is now
complete.
(d) publish
your version to the web
Even if you do not succeed in this final step, you have still satisfied the
APEL requirement because you can show your html files quite adequately on a
computer or through a datashow projector.
However, this is one final step which will be satisfying to very many of
you i.e. to actually publish your CV on the web (nobody will find it, though,
apart from other course members).
Here are the quite simple instructions:
1. In Windows Explore, copy your
complete folder (e.g. ‘mch’) to the clipboard
2. In Internet Explorer, making sure
you are connected to the Internet, click on this link to get connected to your
webspace by clicking on the link
below:
Access webspace
3. Now paste your own folder in
(CTRL-V is quickest!)
4. You should see your own folder name
appear and then the files transfer into it.
5. You can now access your own CV on
the web by typing in:
http://psim-cv.here.ws/mch (substituting your own initials
i.e. name of your folder) for mch
That’s it!
We will try this exercise in a classroom if we can in case you get stuck
doing it on your own.