Convert Your Resume to HTML Format

An HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) resume allows you to have more creativity, flexibility, and control of the content and form of your resume on the World Wide Web. You can add sound, links to other Web sites, art and video to your resume. In the text, you can use bold, italic, underlining, different fonts and sizes, shading and color. You can include graphics and tables. You don’t need to know any HTML to build an HTML resume when you use your word processor, Web-page-development software, or the World Wide Web.

Follow these steps to create your HTML resume:

• You can create a HTML resume in your word processor, and save your document as an HTML document with a file name extension htm or html. You now have a Web resume.
  
• To create a Web resume to engage the viewer with visual and auditory style, you can use Web-page-development software, such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage. This will make it easier to add graphics, video, or sound files.

Another option for creating a Web resume is to use an existing resume from the Web to create a template for your HTML resume as follows:

• Go to a Web site that allows public access to its resumes and find one that you like the layout and design.
  
• Save the resume.
  
• Log off your Internet service provider and open Windows Notepad (Start, Programs, Accessories, Notepad).
  
• Open the file and you have instant HTML programming. You will see the HTML coding that instructs how the text should look on the screen. You have to delete the original writing and replace it with your own information, without deleting the coding.

To put your Web resume on the Web, you need a computer that is connected to the Internet and an Internet Service Provider that offers web space. Your Internet Service Provider will be glad to give you instructions on how to upload a document.