This website's resume pages are fairly self-explanatory and basic, and
there should be little need for this page. But, there are a variety of
possible viewing issues, given a simple page design and multiple environments.
The following notes run through some details concerning viewing, printing,
and page access.
There are three resume pages: Summary, Details,
and Plain Text combined.
The Summary Page provides bulleted points; the Details Page provides some
descriptive history; the Plain Text version provides more or less the
Details Page in a roughly 65 character wide format.
The resume page palette (the page with the choices that brought you
to this text) allows you to flip through these pages.
After some inter-page links description, a couple of page traversal
details are discussed below in the remainder of this section.
[Comments on window sizing appear in a separate section,
further down the page (see Window Sizing below)].
Resume Page Links:
There are a few links on the resume
pages. On the Summary and Details pages, clicking on a section heading
should bring up an employment / education data sheet. Additionally,
also on the Summary and Details pages, clicking on the page identifier
in the upper right ("Summary Page" or "Details Page" - depending on
which of those pages you're on) should switch to the other page (the
mouse-over tooltip should indicate that this toggle is to a companion
page). Finally, on the Summary Page, in the "More detail" section,
there are links to the Details and Plain Text pages.
Mouse Clicks and Window Focus:
The default tiling of the
resume page palette and resume page windows is such that it might appear
that these pages are sub-windows in a frame, and that perhaps any link
visible should also be immediately clickable, or something like that.
In fact, the resume page palette and resume page windows are just simple
separate windows. And, at any particular time, only one of the windows
visible will have the focus. [To give a window the focus, you click on
it or otherwise navigate to it.]
In some browsing environments, it will be the case that links in the
window with the focus are immediately clickable, but links in other
windows (visible but without the focus) are not - ie, are not
without first obtaining the focus for the window housing those links.
The visibility of (seemingly) available links, when in a window without
the focus, while in a browsing environment without the click through,
can make it seem that the page / browser is ignoring one's mouse clicks,
an effect quite noticeable when one is used to more responsive behavior.
In our case, depending on environment, you might find that, if the resume
page palette window is not the current focus, clicking on one of its link
choices might give the window the focus - but not additionally follow
the link clicked on (ie not without, once having the focus, clicking again).
When we see a link, and click on it, we expect we will follow that link
to its destination.
In your browsing environment, if you experience this somewhat surprising
result of clicking on a link that you can see, but then not going
anywhere, simply click the needed second time.
[ If you find you're in an environment where you need to do this additional
clicking, you'll also quickly find that, to step through the resume pages
via the palette, you'll be clicking twice per link.]
Main Page Links and Resume Palette Window Focus:
In this
version of the website, the resume page palette is reached via a main menu.
Whether or not a resume specific url is used, the main menu is brought up.
If you are viewing the resume pages, move away from them, and then, instead
of navigating back to the resume page of interest or palette, use the
main page link to the resume palette, in some environments the
(pre-existing) resume palette fails to get raised if it it hidden.
Though clicking on resume palette links to bring up and revisit the resume pages
will raise a hidden resume page, clicking on the main page's link to the
resume palette, though it will create the palette if it doesn't exist,
in some environments might not raise it when the palette is being revisited.
[This behavior may be an artifact of this website's pages
existing on more than one host.]
Window Opening
By default, the url http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~mmh/resume/
(or, alternately, http://xenon.stanford.edu/~mmh/resume/ )
is designed to open the Summary resume page, by opening the resume choices
palette page from the main page. But, this sequence is implemented via
popup, and won't automatically go beyond the main page if
popups are disabled (which could often be the the case).
So, please note that if popups are disabled, then the direct resume
link page opening will be accompanied by an alert which directs the viewer
to click on the "area I" link on the main page to proceed.
Apologies for the extra step in such cases.
JavaScript Use:
The windows for the resume palette, Summary, Details and Plain
Text pages are supposed to get sized reasonably, but to do that
sizing programmatically here requires JavaScript to be enabled
for your browsing session.
If JavaScript isn't enabled then these pages (and some others)
won't get sized automatically.
Screen Real Estate:
The resume page windows have
some fixed width dependencies. In some environments, these can
cause jumbling in the resume palette window.
The resume summary and details pages are each designed to fit on one page
- assuming no header and footer sections. To print these pages without header
and footer sections, you might need to temporarily adjust your print settings.
In Internet Explorer 6, for example, Page Setup (File => Page Setup) can be used
to change the 'Header' and 'Footer' settings from the following decorating ones: