To me (who considers himself a TeX-beginner for a long while to come) it seems like quite a mountain to climb, with much guessworking required, to convert this CV template into a (reasonably close, or better) TeX equivalent:
My guess is that http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Boxes might come in handy, and/or knowledge of tables.
Would much appreciate some ideas, maybe it's a piece of cake for the TeX-gurus out there?
I would not consider myself a TeX-guru (TeXpert), but I think I see where this can go.
Mostly, this is an application of mdframed, mildly fancy tabular usage (with some support from multirow and friends thrown in), and a good knowledge of how environments work in LaTeX.
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[framemethod=tikz]{mdframed}
\usepackage{anyfontsize,multirow,mwe}
\newenvironment{infobox}[2][green]{%
\begin{mdframed}[%
skipabove=4ex plus .5ex minus .5ex,%
skipbelow=4ex plus .5ex minus .5ex,%
frametitle={\sffamily #2},%
innertopmargin=2ex,%
innerbottommargin=2ex,%
frametitleaboveskip=1.618ex,%
frametitlebelowskip=1.618ex,%
frametitlebackgroundcolor=#1,%
linecolor=#1]%
}{%
\end{mdframed}%
}
\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\fontsize{50}{60}\selectfont
\sffamily
\scshape
\color{green!50!black}
Some Name
\end{center}
\begin{infobox}[green!80!black]{\textcolor{white}{Personal Data}}
\renewcommand{\tabcolsep}{1cm}
\begin{tabular}{lll}
\multirow{7}{*}{\includegraphics[width=3cm]{example-image-a}} & Date of Birth & 22 February 2002 \\
& a & b \\
& a & b \\
& & \\
& a & b \\
& a & b \\
& a & b \\
\end{tabular}
\end{infobox}
\begin{infobox}[green!80!black]{Title!!}
\begin{list}{...}{...}
\item[...] ...
\end{list}
\end{infobox}
\end{document}
Note: you probably don't want to use the minimal class. I'm just trying to show all of the dependencies of this way. This can also be made much simpler when it comes time to using the environment if and when you settle on a consistent format. (Note that the example you provide is not consistent when it comes to what a description is.)
See what you can do with it.
infobox environment and beyond: the color of your table titles, the color of your tables, how you want to format descriptions. I would also reconsider how you logically interpret your personal information --- it's not really a table, is it? As far as that's concerned, take a look into enumitem.
– Sean Allred
Jun 11 '13 at 02:58
description (although the very last seems to be a timeline; I would consider looking at moderntimeline (pictures)). A CV/resume is very much up to personal taste though, so do what you think looks best; the example you provide looks like an abuse of tables, and this can easily be replicated in LaTeX (as I've shown).
– Sean Allred
Jun 11 '13 at 12:37
description: is that supposed to denote a technical (TeX-)term? Or just me actually trying to literally describe "something" ? description (that is, a description of the tasks I had at a given post and the things I contributed/accomplished there) as opposed to just dropping / listing names of previous employers?
– nutty about natty
Jun 11 '13 at 14:18
\begin{description}...\end{description} --- you declare to LaTeX that this is a description and LaTeX (or you) decide(s) how to represent a description (if this happens to be in the form of a table, so be it, but to me it looks a little awkward).
– Sean Allred
Jun 11 '13 at 14:24
mdframed. Am just wondering if that's considered a "state-of-the-art" pkg, or if it has some "competitors", as it were: do you know of any? e.g. http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/71554/framed-or-mdframed-pros-cons – nutty about natty Jun 12 '13 at 08:50mdframedis what I saw being used around here for fancy shtuff, and I figured this Q was a good excuse to learn a little about it. – Sean Allred Jun 12 '13 at 11:25