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In this assignment you'll build and deploy your resume in HTML5. Compiling your resources into a resume and constructing a web page from it is a great step to get your name and qualifications out there in front of potential employers. Building this now will jump start your portfolio and resume sites later!
You might be asking yourself, "But wait I'm still studying! What skills can I put down on a resume now?".
Well you might be surprised...
Don't worry too much about all that which you have yet to learn. You can fill in the gaps and write in skills that you will learn in this course! Further, once you've gone through our entire prep course you'll be a styling wizard and have the skills to style the same markup multiple different ways like this:
Here is a quick peek at what you'll be building:
Time to build your resume! Here we'll map out the various elements your resume should have and talk about what HTML elements you should use to display them. You should use exactly zero styling. This exercise is all about using raw HTML. You can always make it look pretty later!
Remember your markup should be structured semantically using proper tags and indentation levels.
header
with a big ol' h1
stating your name and target career.address
tag with your addresshref
with a mailto:your@email.here
hr
tag below to give your header a nice big underline for emphasis!section
below your header and give it a headingsection
below the lastsection
under the lastsection
under the lastsection
under the lastsection
under the lastsection
footer
to the bottom of your resumehref="mailto:..."
strong
tag to make it stand out!Now it's time to deploy your resume. Choose one of the deployment methods that we covered in the lesson in this section on deploying static content.
Once your resume is deployed don't forget to put a link to the deployed page in your README!
$ git push origin master
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