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NEW SITE trackajob.com

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Hello

Looking for a new Job in Orlando, I needed to track my resume postings. I did not find any tools online (If you know of one , please let me know).

So, I created a site to track my job hunting. Basically you can enter each job and create contacts for that job. Also you can enter a log of your progress for that job. The other thing I wanted was to have my resume online. So the program allows you to create an online version and also upload a pdf. You can send a link to your online resume. Only the link holder has access, so is not public.

It still need some work, but I think is functional the way it is.

Please let me know what you guys think. Comments and suggestions are welcome.



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very good idea; no doubt this will save you lots of time (all your information is in one place) plus whoever wants to access your CV only needs an internet connection. Also anyone doubting your programming skills should be impressed by what you created here.

Not sure if you wanted any actual testing but i tried to sign-up for an account and kept getting an 'Error in database' when entering my password information
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Could you please try again. I was doing some changes. Please do enter and try everything.


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Pretty good, on the edit profile page, I would have it need a confirmation on the password. I was tabbing through and happened to hit the Q and tab at the same time, and it placed the q in the field and let me submit the form. Now my password is "q".

You may still be building it, but you may want to consider hiding errors for the site. I'm a big geek, and anytime I see something like ?p=1 my instinct is to see what I get if I change that number. In this case, a big huge error message.

Two issues with the emails. The welcome e-mail has a \ before the word Welcome. The e-mail to give me a link to the resume (well would be to send to someone else), under the URL in the message, I got "undefined".

Good looking site though, nice and simple.
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Thank you,

I fixed both problems. I will take out the error soon. I wanted to see for now all the errors. Soon I will just log them .

The other day I say a movie about game developers. One guy was programming for years. Then when it was time to show it to the public, the first person found a bunch of bugs in the first 5 minutes. The life as a programmer is a hard one, JAJA.

When I see job postings looking for GODS and rocks stars, I just have to laugh. Sure the more money you have, the more testing you can do. But creating software is an evolutionary process, no matter how good you are.
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Actually, I am still need to add a strong password feature. I will work on it.
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sorted; Below are some items you might want to look at -

1. When entering an incorrect password / email combination maybe indicate to the user that their are doing so; an alert or notification somewhere in the area of the login box.
2. On the profile page, the entry form - need assistance to relocate, willing to relocate, the default options are blank; i'm not sure how you handle those values in the database but you might want to make the blank value something like N/A or remove it completely, at the moment it looks as if it the system isn't 100% complete (you did mention it is a work in progress but once it's up and running i think it might create that perception)
3. On the experience, skills, education pages - Possibly a small explanation at the top of the page regarding the purpose of the page; personally when i can't make sense of how a system works i tend to leave it and not use it again.
4. The links in the top right corner, i'm not sure if you use images around them but i can't see them and only noticed them when moving my cursor over the top bar looking for a logout button. Take a look at using a type of tooltip that will show info when hovering over a link
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What browser are you using?

In the Login I do show errors for everything. I am including an example as an attachment.

There are 4 icons on top(I do need to add a tooltip, but you should be able to see them.) I am using chrome and firefox
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IE9 but i don't switch on images when browsing
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I added some basic help.
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Hello,

social_experiment, what do you mean dont switch on images? I just try IE9 and see all the images.

I added the password Strength feature

I installed an SSL on the site
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Sounds like he has a low bandwidth connection and isn't viewing images. Do you have alt="xxxx" attribute for all your images in case images are turned off?
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yacahuma wrote:Then when it was time to show it to the public, the first person found a bunch of bugs in the first 5 minutes.
A different perspective always helps. I can nitpick and find issues all day with other people's stuff, yet miss something simple with my own that the client will point out and I'll be like "How the heck did I miss that???" This is why I started keeping a written log of all the "nit pick" items I did find on my own stuff, then at least I can look at it for perspective and not kick myself so much. :-)

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Eric! wrote:Sounds like he has a low bandwidth connection and isn't viewing images.
exactly :)

The alt text should be default practice; remember people using screen readers also rely on those values for info; take a look at the 'title' attribute as well. The title tag will show text when hovering over the image.
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Well i change the top menu. Now it uses a tooltip code that I found and alts. Hope that solves the problem.
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