If your dream is to become a great web designer with relevant qualifications for today's employment market, you'll need to study Adobe Dreamweaver.
We'd also suggest that you become fully conversant with the entire Adobe Web Creative Suite, including Flash and Action Script, to be able to facilitate Dreamweaver professionally as a web designer. Having such skills can mean later becoming either an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) or an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).
Getting to grips with how to design the website just gets you started. Traffic creation, maintaining content and various programming skills should follow. Think about training programmes with additional features that cover these skills perhaps HTML, PHP and MySQL, along with E-Commerce and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills.
Some training providers are still maintaining the rather old-fashioned idea of classroom lessons. Often sold as a benefit, following a chat with most students who've had to attend a couple, you'll hear a common theme of many or most of these problems:
* All that travelling - many trips and normally 100's of miles each time.
* Getting time out of work - most schools provide weekday availability and link several days together. This can be hard for a lot of working people, and it's made more problematic when you add the travel time on.
* If we've got twenty days annual leave, giving half of them to training classes means we'll be hard-pushed to get a holiday with our families.
* Training events typically become far too big.
* There is often tension in classes because most students want to move at a pace comfortable for them.
* And let's not forget the extra cost of driving and accommodation over-night either. This can run to hundreds and even thousands of pounds extra. Sit down and add it up - you may be surprised.
* Not wanting employers to know about the training can be very important to a lot of attendees. Why would you want to sacrifice any job advancement, salary hikes or achievement with your current employer just because you're retraining. When your boss discovers you've committed to certification in another area entirely, how will they regard you?
* It's common to find that, at times, it's uncomfortable to raise questions in a room full of our fellow trainees - so we don't appear ignorant.
* Where students have to on occasion live away for part of the week, imagine the increased difficulty in reaching the needed classes, as time is now more scarce than ever.
The perfect situation is watching a videoed workshop - providing direct instruction whenever you wish.
You can study from home on your desktop PC or use your laptop to enjoy the sun. Any questions that pop up, just make use of the 24x7 support (that should've been packaged with any technical type of training.)
Repeat any modules if you need to - doing something over will help you remember it. And note-taking becomes a thing of the past - it's already prepared ready.
Could it be more straightforward: Time and money is saved and travelling is avoided altogether; and of course you get a more comfortable training environment.
Usually, trainers will provide a shelf full of reference manuals. It's not a very interesting way to learn and not a very good way of remembering.
We see a huge improvement in memory retention when we use multiple senses - educational experts have expounded on this for decades now.
Find a course where you're provided with an array of CD or DVD ROM's - you'll start with videos of instructor demonstrations, with the facility to practice your skills in interactive lab's.
You really need to look at some example materials from each company you're contemplating. You'll want to see that they include full motion videos of instructors demonstrating the topic with lab's to practice the skills in.
It is generally unwise to choose training that is only available online. With highly variable reliability and quality from all internet service providers, it makes sense to have disc based courseware (On CD or DVD).
An effective training program will have wholly authorised exam preparation packages.
Sometimes people can get thrown by practising exam questions that are not from official boards. Quite often, the question formats and phraseology is unfamiliar and you should be prepared for this.
'Mock' or practice exams are enormously valuable in helping you build your confidence - so that when you come to take the real deal, you won't be worried.
We'd also suggest that you become fully conversant with the entire Adobe Web Creative Suite, including Flash and Action Script, to be able to facilitate Dreamweaver professionally as a web designer. Having such skills can mean later becoming either an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) or an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).
Getting to grips with how to design the website just gets you started. Traffic creation, maintaining content and various programming skills should follow. Think about training programmes with additional features that cover these skills perhaps HTML, PHP and MySQL, along with E-Commerce and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) skills.
Some training providers are still maintaining the rather old-fashioned idea of classroom lessons. Often sold as a benefit, following a chat with most students who've had to attend a couple, you'll hear a common theme of many or most of these problems:
* All that travelling - many trips and normally 100's of miles each time.
* Getting time out of work - most schools provide weekday availability and link several days together. This can be hard for a lot of working people, and it's made more problematic when you add the travel time on.
* If we've got twenty days annual leave, giving half of them to training classes means we'll be hard-pushed to get a holiday with our families.
* Training events typically become far too big.
* There is often tension in classes because most students want to move at a pace comfortable for them.
* And let's not forget the extra cost of driving and accommodation over-night either. This can run to hundreds and even thousands of pounds extra. Sit down and add it up - you may be surprised.
* Not wanting employers to know about the training can be very important to a lot of attendees. Why would you want to sacrifice any job advancement, salary hikes or achievement with your current employer just because you're retraining. When your boss discovers you've committed to certification in another area entirely, how will they regard you?
* It's common to find that, at times, it's uncomfortable to raise questions in a room full of our fellow trainees - so we don't appear ignorant.
* Where students have to on occasion live away for part of the week, imagine the increased difficulty in reaching the needed classes, as time is now more scarce than ever.
The perfect situation is watching a videoed workshop - providing direct instruction whenever you wish.
You can study from home on your desktop PC or use your laptop to enjoy the sun. Any questions that pop up, just make use of the 24x7 support (that should've been packaged with any technical type of training.)
Repeat any modules if you need to - doing something over will help you remember it. And note-taking becomes a thing of the past - it's already prepared ready.
Could it be more straightforward: Time and money is saved and travelling is avoided altogether; and of course you get a more comfortable training environment.
Usually, trainers will provide a shelf full of reference manuals. It's not a very interesting way to learn and not a very good way of remembering.
We see a huge improvement in memory retention when we use multiple senses - educational experts have expounded on this for decades now.
Find a course where you're provided with an array of CD or DVD ROM's - you'll start with videos of instructor demonstrations, with the facility to practice your skills in interactive lab's.
You really need to look at some example materials from each company you're contemplating. You'll want to see that they include full motion videos of instructors demonstrating the topic with lab's to practice the skills in.
It is generally unwise to choose training that is only available online. With highly variable reliability and quality from all internet service providers, it makes sense to have disc based courseware (On CD or DVD).
An effective training program will have wholly authorised exam preparation packages.
Sometimes people can get thrown by practising exam questions that are not from official boards. Quite often, the question formats and phraseology is unfamiliar and you should be prepared for this.
'Mock' or practice exams are enormously valuable in helping you build your confidence - so that when you come to take the real deal, you won't be worried.
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