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.