For almost all web designers, Adobe Dreamweaver is the starting point of study. It is thought to be the favourite environment for web development on the planet. We’d also suggest that you learn all about the full Adobe Web Creative Suite, which incorporates Flash and Action Script, in order to utilise Dreamweaver commercially as a web-designer. Having such skills can mean later becoming an Adobe Certified Expert or Adobe Certified Professional (ACE or ACP).
Learning how to create the website is only the beginning. Creating traffic, content maintenance and knowledge of some programming essentials should come next. Think about training with additional features that teach these subjects (such as PHP, HTML, MySQL etc.), alongside E-Commerce and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills.
Apparently, the UK IT market promises unique prospects. But, to investigate it properly, what sort of questions should we pose, and which are the most important factors?
Throw out a salesman who recommends a training program without a thorough investigation so as to understand your abilities plus your experience level. They should be able to select from a expansive choice of training products from which they could give you an appropriate solution. With a strong background, or sometimes a little commercial experience (some certifications gained previously perhaps?) then it’s more than likely the point from which you begin your studies will be quite dissimilar from a student that is completely new to the industry. Commencing with a basic PC skills program first is often the best way to commence your IT program, but depends on your skill level.
Proper support should never be taken lightly - locate a good company offering 24×7 direct access to instructors, as anything else will annoy you and definitely impede your ability to learn. some companies only provide email support (slow), and phone support is usually just a call-centre that will just take down the issue and email it over to their technical team - who will then call back sometime over the next 24hrs, at a suitable time to them. This is no good if you’re stuck and can’t continue and have a one hour time-slot in which to study.
As long as you look hard, you will find professional companies that provide their students direct-access online support 24×7 - even in the middle of the night. Unless you insist on 24×7 support, you’ll quickly find yourself regretting it. You may not need it late in the night, but you may need weekends, early mornings or even late evenings at some point.
Trainees looking at this market often have a very practical outlook on work, and don’t always take well to classrooms, and slogging through piles of books. If this is putting you off studying, go for more modern interactive training, where learning is video-based. Research into the way we learn shows that much more of what we learn in remembered when we receive multi-sensorial input, and we get physically involved with the study process.
Find a course where you’ll get a host of DVD-ROM’s - you’ll begin by watching videos of instructors demonstrating the skills, and be able to practice your skills in interactive lab’s. You must ensure that you see courseware examples from your chosen company. You’ll want to see that they include video demo’s and interactive elements such as practice lab’s.
It doesn’t make sense to select online only courseware. With highly variable reliability and quality from most broadband providers, it makes sense to have physical media such as CD or DVD ROM’s.
If you’re considering a training company which still provides ‘in-centre workshop days’ as a feature of their programme, then consider these hassles encountered by many students:
* Repeated long journeys - hundreds of miles usually.
* If, like many of us, you work, then weekday only workshops are difficult to make. You’re usually facing at least 2, if not 3 days in a row.
* Let us not forget lost holiday time. We typically get 4 weeks off each year. If half of that is used up on workshops, then it doesn’t leave much for us and our families.
* In a situation where running costs are very high, a lot of schools have to put on larger classes - not ideal (and with less one-on-one time).
* There is often tension in many classes where students want to progress at their own pace.
* Many trainees talk of the high costs involved with travelling back and forth to the facility whilst paying for accommodation and food gets very high.
* Maintaining the privacy of our training can be high on the list of priorities to most trainees. You don’t want to lose any lift up the ladder, salary hikes or success with your current employer because of your studies. If your work discovers you’re putting yourself through accreditation in a completely different market, how will they regard you?
* How many of us have avoided asking a question, because we didn’t want to look stupid?
* For students working away from home occasionally, it’s a fact of life that workshops sometimes become very hard to attend - but unfortunately, the fees were paid along with everything else at the start.
Infinitely more flexible is to exploit pre-made lessons in the comfort of your own chosen environment - at a time that’s convenient to you - not some other person. Whenever you experience difficulties, logon to the 24×7 support facility (that you should have insisted on for any technical study.) Don’t forget, if your PC is a laptop, study can take place anywhere. Repeat any modules as often as you want - doing something over will help you remember it. And you can forget taking notes - everything’s done for you already. The result: Reduced hassle, less cost, and no wasted travelling time.
Huge changes are flooding technology over the next generation - and it only gets more exciting every day. Many people are of the opinion that the technological advancement we’ve had over recent years is easing off. This couldn’t be more wrong. We have yet to experience incredible advances, and the internet significantly will be the biggest thing to affect the way we live.
Always remember that on average, the income of a person in the IT market in the United Kingdom is noticeably better than in the rest of the economy, so in general you will more than likely earn considerably more as a trained IT professional, than you would in most typical jobs. Experts agree that there’s a substantial nationwide need for qualified IT professionals. Also, as the industry constantly develops, it seems this pattern will continue for quite some time to come.
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