Packaging Options

Packaging as an eMail attachment

If you decide to send your Toot! electronic résumé as an eMail attachment, Toot! will help by creating a ZIP archive package for you containing the portfolio and the associated artifacts. Keep in mind:

• The size of the archive will probably be dominated by the size of the artifacts. If the archive is too big, you may have trouble sending it and your recipient may have trouble receiving it. (Some Internet carriers place size limits on accounts.) As a rule of thumb, do not email attachments over 2MB in size.
• The email you are attaching the archive to will serve as your cover letter. Prepare it with care.
• Your recipient will need to download Tooter, the Toot! Viewer to open your résumé. Be sure to mention this in your cover letter. Tooter is a free download.
• Given the current state of the Internet, your recipient may not be comfortable opening your eMail attachment. Prepare for this possibility with a plan for follow-up.

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Packaging for CD/DVD media

If you have a CD-ROM, CD-R/W, or DVD burner on your computer, you can create a disc containing your electronic résumé, a copy of your cover letter, etc. Toot! will not actually control your burner hardware; instead, it will help you prepare for burning by collecting copies of all necessary files into a single folder that can be used as your burn source. Use the software that came with your burner to burn the disc.

Keep in mind:

• You should use your name as the volume name of the disc.
• Put a copy of your cover letter into the burn folder, just in case your letter and your disc become separated.
• Your recipient will need to download Tooter, the Toot! Viewer to open your résumé. If you know your recipient has a Windows computer, you can include the Windows Tooter installer on your disc. However, if your recipient is (or could be) a Macintosh user, you will either need to create a dual-platform CD or include the Macintosh Tooter installer as an archived file. (See the documentation for your burner software for instructions to create a dual-platform CD-ROM.)

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Packaging for a web-site

Another option is to convert your Toot! electronic résumé into a set of HTML files and posting them on your web-site. Toot! also supports this option. Keep in mind:

• The people who look at your résumé on the web will render each page using their browser and their set of fonts. You have little control over this process. We have tried to adhere closely to recognized Internet standards and have tested on a variety of browsers (on both Macintosh and Windows) to provide the widest possible compatibility.

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A web-site example

Our demonstration Toot! portfolio is Tommy Toot (file: Toot, Tommy.toot). We're happy to share Tommy with you — a copy of this portfolio is included when you download the Toot application.

As an example of the web-conversion, click the link below to view Tommy Toot converted to a set of web pages. We did not make any modifications to these pages; they are presented to you exactly as the Toot! application created them.

Click here for Tommy Toot.

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