This project encompasses my resume update. I redid the site theme from a horrid Flash site that was about 3 or 4 years old about a month ago. It was a quick 24 turn-around from concept, photoshop design, and then cut up into a Drupal theme.

At that time, I was pressed for time, so the content of the site didn't get updated, it was a straight text copy off of the resume version I had in Word format. Since then, I've had the need to update the content in my resume to be more prepared for attempting to find employment in Europe, so I updated the standard versions of my resume, including a PDF version with a great splash/cover page that matches the website theme perfectly. I did another version for print purposes that shows the same data in the resume portion, but makes the cover sheet a little more printer friendly.

Once the resume was updated, and ready to someone to download it, I also had to include a litlte download interface on the site, so I added a button at the top for PDF downloads which included the main & print versions, along with a personal data sheet with information that needed to be available, but not cluttering up the resume content itself.

To do later is including a reference sheet (password protected), and a portfolio document in PDF format as well for a complete package to be available offline as well as online for my skills.

The following is the interface that I put together for the popup window using a jQuery dialog window.

With this popup in place, granting direct access to the PDF documents in question, the site was complete including a simple upload of the modified data in the core resume/CV document. So after updating the content in the Drupal installation with what was in the new resume, the site was perfect in many ways.

The main site includes a great jQuery accordion effect, however, not by using the accordion plugin. It was a custom accordion style implementation. Also, large Web 2.0 style buttons at the top represent the main sections of the resume, and clicking on any of them will auto open the corresponding section, and then gently scroll the page to the top of that section. In addition, clicking directly on any of the closed section headers in the lower content section will also open that section, and scroll the header to the top of the page for ease of reading.

Finally, it brings us to the completed site...

To visit this site, and see the resume in action, please visit JakeStrawn.com