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What is OceanResume

OceanResume hosts your resume as a website and as a PDF. You write your content once, in a profile, and OceanResume shows that same content in two designs: a template for the website and a Folio for the PDF.

The three parts

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  • Profile. Your resume content: sections such as Basic Detail, Work Experience and Education, each holding entries made of fields. A profile has a handle, the short name that becomes its web address.
  • Template. The design of your hosted resume website. Changing the template, its theme, font or media changes how the site looks. It never changes what you wrote.
  • Folio. The design of your PDF resume. It styles the same profile content for download and print.

Edit a job title once and both the website and the PDF pick it up the next time you publish.

Where things live

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  • The dashboard is where you work: open the dashboard. It lists your profiles. Each card shows whether the profile is Live or Hidden and whether it has Unpublished edits.
  • The profile editor opens when you select Edit on a card. Its sidebar has your content sections and the tools: Analytics, Portfolio (the website design), Folio, Sections, Import, Site settings and Contact Form.
  • Your public address is where visitors read your resume. Every profile has a free link made from its handle, in the form oceanresume.app/yourhandle. You can also give a profile a subdomain or a domain you own.

How content reaches visitors

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  1. You save an edit. It is stored as a draft that only you can see.
  2. You select Publish changes. The draft becomes the published version.
  3. You switch the profile to Live. Visitors can now open its address.

A new profile starts Hidden and unpublished, so nothing is public until you choose. Publish and go live explains each stage.

What to do next

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  1. Create your first profile.
  2. Fill it in: import a resume from a PDF or DOCX, or type into sections and entries.
  3. Choose the look: website templates and Folios.
  4. Publish and go live.
  5. Pick an address: subdomains or connect a custom domain.

If something goes wrong

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Start with common problems. If that does not answer it, contact support.