This Web Site
This web site exists to demonstrate my skills as a software developer.
The site as a whole demonstrates a minimal ability to lay out content in a functional, yet pleasing manner. Note that I am not a designer and am quite willing to work with professionals in that field.
The main page is my complete resume, formatted to the requirements of a web presentation. It includes experience and skills that no longer fit on the paper resume. Internal hyperlinks have been added to the document to aid in navigating, so that the Professional Experience Summary section doubles as an index.
The other resumes formats which are offered in the sidebar are trimmed to fit in five printed pages. Multiple formats are offered to allow people to work with the files in formats that they are used to.
The sidebar presents my contact information and navigation for this site. It is engineered to stay in place, so that information is never hard to find. This requires a web browser which supports CSS2, however I have tested this with several browsers on various operating systems, and it appears that we have reached this level of standards compliance. Also, I've checked the site with a browser that does not support CSS at all, and while it is not particularly pretty, the content is still readable and navigable.
No scripting was used in this site, on either the server or client side.
Older versions of this site were constrained to a short sidebar by the desire for it to work with then-common 640x480 displays. Because of this, the navigation was embedded in the resume document. I think now I can assume at least an 800x600 display, which allows for the document to be free of that distraction and for the navigation links to always be available.
Internet Explorer 6.0 is a special case. It does not support CSS2 nearly as well as other browsers. Without special attention, its display degrades poorly. With some special tweaking to get around the limitations of IE, its display becomes functional, but that forces the display under other browsers to to be less pleasent than it could have been.
