Assignment 2: fancy resume

Here is a styled resume for Rajni. Write a styled version of your own resume. You should do two things first:

  1. Create a new html file by copying the old one into a new file resume-styled.html

  2. Create a style file resume.css. This is where you will put your css code. Within the head element of resume-styled.html add the line

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="resume.css">

Now any style rules you put in resume.css will be applied to the HTML in resume-styled.html. Separating your CSS and HTML like this allows you to reuse the CSS for other resumes, and also makes the HTML shorter and easier to edit.

Now you need to modify your HTML code to label various pieces of the resume for styling, and write CSS rules to style those pieces.

How you style your resume is up to you, but here is a brief list of some of the changes made to style the sample resume:

To repeat, you can style your resume however you like; this list just gives a few ideas. Feel free to search the internet for specifics of CSS styling tricks; just please cite sources in a comment at the top of the CSS or HTML. Keep it simple at first, and make sure you understand exactly which elements of the HTML you have selected with each new rule. A good trick is to set the selected element to a particular color (color:red;) while debugging so that you can see that the rule applies to what you think it does.