If your future is in being a web designer, you will need to study Adobe Dreamweaver.
The entire Adobe Web Creative Suite additionally should be studied in detail. This will mean you have knowledge of Action Script and Flash, amongst others, and will prepare you for the Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) or Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) qualification.
The construction of the website is just the start of what you’ll need – in order to create traffic, maintain its content, and work on dynamic sites that are database driven, you’ll be required to have more programming skills, for example HTML, PHP and MySQL. You should also have an excellent grasp of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and E-Commerce.
It’s important to understand: a training course or an accreditation is not the ultimate goal; the particular job that you’re getting the training for is. Many trainers unfortunately completely prioritise the qualification itself.
Don’t be one of those unfortunate students that choose a course that seems ‘fun’ or ‘interesting’ – and end up with a plaque on the wall for a job they hate.
Be honest with yourself about how much you want to earn and the level of your ambition. Usually, this will point the way to what exams you’ll need to attain and what’ll be expected of you in your new role.
We advise all students to speak to an experienced professional before they make a decision on a particular training path. This gives some measure of assurance that it contains the relevant skills for the chosen career.
Quite often, students have issues with a single training area which doesn’t even occur to them: The breakdown of the course materials before being couriered to your address.
By and large, you will join a program that takes between and 1 and 3 years and get posted one section at a time – from one exam to the next. This sounds logical on one level, until you consider this:
What if for some reason you don’t get to the end of every exam? What if you don’t find their order of learning is ideal for you? Without any fault on your part, you may not meet the required timescales and not get all the study materials as a result.
In a perfect world, you want everything at the start – so you’ll have them all to come back to at any time in the future – at any time you choose. This also allows you to vary the order in which you complete each objective if you find another route more intuitive.
OK, why might we choose commercial qualifications rather than traditional academic qualifications obtained from tech’ colleges and universities?
With an ever-increasing technical demand on resources, the IT sector has had to move to the specialised core-skills learning that can only be obtained from the actual vendors – in other words companies such as Microsoft, CompTIA, CISCO and Adobe. This often comes in at a fraction of the cost and time.
In essence, only that which is required is learned. It’s not quite as straightforward as that, but the principle objective is to concentrate on the fundamentally important skill-sets (including a degree of required background) – without going into too much detail in everything else (as academia often does).
When it comes down to the nitty-gritty: Commercial IT certifications give employers exactly what they’re looking for – the title says it all: as an example – I am a ‘Microsoft Certified Professional’ in ‘Planning and Maintaining a Windows 2003 Infrastructure’. Therefore an employer can look at the particular needs they have and what certifications are required to perform the job.
Always expect the very latest Microsoft (or relevant organisation’s) accredited exam simulation and preparation packages.
Steer clear of relying on non-accredited exam preparation systems. The type of questions asked is sometimes startlingly different – and sometimes this can be a real headache in the actual examination.
Mock exams can be enormously valuable in helping you build your confidence – so when it comes to taking your actual exams, you won’t be worried.
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