Almost exclusively, Adobe Dreamweaver is the first base for all web designers. It's reputed to be the favourite environment for web development on the planet.
We'd also suggest that students get an in-depth understanding of the entire Adobe Web Creative Suite, which includes Flash and Action Script, to be able to utilise Dreamweaver commercially as a web-designer. These skills can result in you subsequently becoming an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) or Adobe Certified Professional (ACP).
Constructing a website is only the start of the necessary skill-set for professional web-designers today. We would recommend that you look for a program that includes important features like PHP, HTML and MySQL to allow you to understand how to maintain content, create traffic and program database driven sites.
How long has it been since you considered the security of your job? For most people, this only rears its head when something goes wrong. However, the reality is that our job security is a thing of the past, for all but the most lucky of us.
But a fast growing sector, where there just aren't enough staff to go round (as there is a growing shortage of properly qualified staff), opens the possibility of proper job security.
With the computing market for example, the 2006 e-Skills study demonstrated a skills gap across the country of over 26 percent. Or, to put it differently, this clearly demonstrates that the United Kingdom can only locate 3 certified professionals for each 4 job positions in existence now.
This disquieting idea highlights the requirement for more properly qualified Information Technology professionals in the country.
With the market evolving at the speed it is, it's unlikely there's any better sector worth taking into account for a new career.
Now, why might we choose qualifications from the commercial sector rather than more traditional academic qualifications gained through tech' colleges and universities?
The IT sector is now aware that for mastery of skill sets for commercial use, the right accreditation from companies such as CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA is closer to the mark commercially - at a far reduced cost both money and time wise.
They do this by honing in on the skill-sets required (alongside a relevant amount of background knowledge,) instead of going into the heightened depths of background non-specific minutiae that degree courses can often find themselves doing (because the syllabus is so wide).
Put yourself in the employer's position - and your company needed a person with some very particular skills. What is easier: Wade your way through a mass of different academic qualifications from graduate applicants, trying to establish what they know and what vocational skills they have, or choose particular accreditations that specifically match what you're looking for, and then select who you want to interview from that. The interview is then more about the person and how they'll fit in - rather than establishing whether they can do a specific task.
Quite often, students have issues with a single courseware aspect which doesn't even occur to them: The breakdown of the course materials before being sent out to you.
The majority of training companies will set up a program typically taking 1-3 years, and courier the materials in pieces as you pass each exam. This sounds reasonable until you consider the following:
What would happen if you didn't finish each and every module at the proposed pace? Sometimes their preference of study order doesn't come as naturally as an alternative path could be.
To provide the maximum security and flexibility, many trainees now want to have all their training materials (which they've now paid for) sent immediately, and not in a piecemeal fashion. It's then up to you at what speed and in which order you want to work.
You should look for an accredited exam preparation programme as part of your course package.
Often students can be thrown off course by practicing questions for their exams that don't come from official sources. Quite often, the question formats and phraseology can be completely unlike un-authorised versions and it's vital that you know this.
Ensure that you test your depth of understanding through quizzes and practice in simulated exam environments prior to taking the actual exam.
We'd also suggest that students get an in-depth understanding of the entire Adobe Web Creative Suite, which includes Flash and Action Script, to be able to utilise Dreamweaver commercially as a web-designer. These skills can result in you subsequently becoming an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) or Adobe Certified Professional (ACP).
Constructing a website is only the start of the necessary skill-set for professional web-designers today. We would recommend that you look for a program that includes important features like PHP, HTML and MySQL to allow you to understand how to maintain content, create traffic and program database driven sites.
How long has it been since you considered the security of your job? For most people, this only rears its head when something goes wrong. However, the reality is that our job security is a thing of the past, for all but the most lucky of us.
But a fast growing sector, where there just aren't enough staff to go round (as there is a growing shortage of properly qualified staff), opens the possibility of proper job security.
With the computing market for example, the 2006 e-Skills study demonstrated a skills gap across the country of over 26 percent. Or, to put it differently, this clearly demonstrates that the United Kingdom can only locate 3 certified professionals for each 4 job positions in existence now.
This disquieting idea highlights the requirement for more properly qualified Information Technology professionals in the country.
With the market evolving at the speed it is, it's unlikely there's any better sector worth taking into account for a new career.
Now, why might we choose qualifications from the commercial sector rather than more traditional academic qualifications gained through tech' colleges and universities?
The IT sector is now aware that for mastery of skill sets for commercial use, the right accreditation from companies such as CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA is closer to the mark commercially - at a far reduced cost both money and time wise.
They do this by honing in on the skill-sets required (alongside a relevant amount of background knowledge,) instead of going into the heightened depths of background non-specific minutiae that degree courses can often find themselves doing (because the syllabus is so wide).
Put yourself in the employer's position - and your company needed a person with some very particular skills. What is easier: Wade your way through a mass of different academic qualifications from graduate applicants, trying to establish what they know and what vocational skills they have, or choose particular accreditations that specifically match what you're looking for, and then select who you want to interview from that. The interview is then more about the person and how they'll fit in - rather than establishing whether they can do a specific task.
Quite often, students have issues with a single courseware aspect which doesn't even occur to them: The breakdown of the course materials before being sent out to you.
The majority of training companies will set up a program typically taking 1-3 years, and courier the materials in pieces as you pass each exam. This sounds reasonable until you consider the following:
What would happen if you didn't finish each and every module at the proposed pace? Sometimes their preference of study order doesn't come as naturally as an alternative path could be.
To provide the maximum security and flexibility, many trainees now want to have all their training materials (which they've now paid for) sent immediately, and not in a piecemeal fashion. It's then up to you at what speed and in which order you want to work.
You should look for an accredited exam preparation programme as part of your course package.
Often students can be thrown off course by practicing questions for their exams that don't come from official sources. Quite often, the question formats and phraseology can be completely unlike un-authorised versions and it's vital that you know this.
Ensure that you test your depth of understanding through quizzes and practice in simulated exam environments prior to taking the actual exam.