Reddit reviews The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice

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A great book about some simple basics that help give even the most plain design some polish: http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-Principles/dp/1566091594

"The Non-Designer's Design Book" and "The Non-Designer's Typography Book", both by Robin Williams (no not that RW). Great starter books for a general introduction that isn't so detailed that it's boring.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic/dp/1566091594'

Maybe you might want to pick up this little book. It will give you some hints and tips on type design for paper:

http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-Principles/dp/1566091594

(not an affiliate link or anything; just a quick search to find it online somewhere)

As others have said, you have a lot more room for play when dealing with printed items. Brochures don't have web limitations, so feel free to try out different type faces. Also, keep in mind that printing so much black might lead to costs you don't see with web design, so choose a printer (either the machine, or a company) wisely. You don't want tacky inks making the brochures stick together.

Lastly, some acknowledgements. I like the spacing on the inside view of the brochure. There's enough room at the bottom to hold it, and not cover text (this is often an oversight). You use fore- and background color to break up the questions and notes, which is nice.

Overall, you can use more contrasts with typeface, size, and alignment than on the web, so please do! And, try out that book; if you need to do this again, you will definitely get some ideas there (I did).

• Don't use .jpg, use .png and you won't get compression artifacts.
  
• Use bigger fonts -- it's all jaggy and ugly to read.
  
• Otherwise ... you're on the right track.
  
• But ... get yourself a decent book on graphic design, eg http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-Principles/dp/1566091594

What do you need feedback with?

The site isn't, like complete rubbish or anything. But there a lot of room for improvement, and I don't know where to start.

I'm guessing that'd you probably want some advice on how to make it look better. So, I'll start there.

If you want to learn how to make websites look nice, start here.

Design is actually really hard. It takes a long time to learn the fundamentals, let alone gain mastery. But there are many resources available.

In terms of coding, start by learning about validation.

Getting a design right across different browsers is hard. Validating your code as you go along will make things easier.

Learn the development tools in your browser of choice. Firefox has firebug, which has an awesome array of extension for helping you craft your pages. Firefox can also be extended with the web development toolbar, which you can use to validate your code as you go.

(Incidently, if you search reddit, you will find threads where developers list their favoured web development tool sets.)

Take a basic design course. If you want to learn design basics, start with the BASICS.

This book: http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-Principles/dp/1566091594 will actually get you started off right by teaching how graphic design is more then colors, but about presenting information and solving problems. (And it looks like you can pick up a used copy via amazon for a few bucks)

Try to keep in mind that a lot of people here have degrees in graphic/web design and we're not too keen on people suggesting that it's a skill one can just pick up in a week from reading a book.

OK, that's all the berating I'm going to do. Smashing Magazine had a series of articles recently that might be right up your alley.

• Applying Mathematics to Web Design : Talks about practical ways to use math to improve the aesthetics of a web design.
  
• Color Theory for Designers - Part 1 of 3 : A good introduction to color theory.
  
  Some other things to look into are the rule of thirds for composition and grid frameworks like 960.gs.
  
  Some other advice to prevent newbie mistakes:
  
  
• Pay attention to margins and padding. Text doesn't like to be crowded.
  
• Create visual divisions in your design that correspond to logical divisions in your HTML markup. Web design is all about applying design principles to the content and structure in your HTML, so don't dismiss the importance of clean markup.
  
• Avoid using "pure" black and white in your designs. You'd be amazed at the depth a subtle hint of color can make.
  
• Since you don't know what you're doing, avoid mixing sans-serif fonts(Times New Roman, etc.) with serif fonts(Arial, Helvetica, etc.). In fact, just pick a font and stick with it.
  
  Supposedly, Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for Visual Novices is a good introduction to many of these concepts. I've not read the book for myself, so I'm just going off the word of others.
  
  Hope that helps. Good luck.

Tangentially-related experience will be your game. Get a series of temp jobs. You'll be surprised at the skills you can pick up at these jobs.

From a design perspective, there's too much white space in your resume. That can be a supporting if not sufficient reason to fill up the page more with more detail about your working past, as insomniaclyric suggests.

With regard to resume format, I think you should do some mugging on resume advice websites. It seems very simple, but try to go through the websites over the course of a week and distill the good advice from the bad.

With regard to resume layout, try to buy this book.
http://www.amazon.com/Non-Designers-Design-Book-Typographic-Principles/dp/1566091594/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1265645414&sr=8-3

There's a very good chance your library can help you out here, so do ask them first, but I do recommend buying it if possible. Seriously, it's worth the money. You can get it used from Amazon for less than one buck! Given that you'll be applying its advice to your resume, the purchase should be easily justified.

It isn't for me either. I only know the basic tenets of design as described in:

The Non Designer's Design Book

• C - Contrast
  
• R - Repetition
  
• A - Alignment
  
• P - Proximity
  
  These principles get me through most of the fine grained design chores. I contract out all of my major design work (like the overall look of the site + assets). If you're strapped for cash, try
  99Designs .

Non-Designers Design Book.

You could drastically improve the current design simply with better use of space. Text shouldn't be touching the border!!