If you’re considering a career in web design, you will need to study Adobe Dreamweaver.

We’d also suggest that students get an in-depth understanding of the entire Adobe Web Creative Suite, which incorporates Flash and Action Script, to be able to use Dreamweaver commercially as a web-designer. This knowledge can take you on to becoming an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) or Adobe Certified Professional (ACP).

The building of the website is only the beginning of what you’ll need – in order to drive traffic, update content, and work on dynamic sites that are database driven, you will need additional programming skills, like PHP, HTML, and MySQL. It would also be a good idea to develop an excellent grasp of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and E-Commerce.

Locating job security in the current climate is very unusual. Companies often throw us out of the workforce at a moment’s notice – as long as it fits their needs.

Now, we only experience security in a swiftly growing marketplace, driven forward by a lack of trained workers. It’s this shortage that creates the correct environment for market-security – a much more desirable situation.

Recently, a United Kingdom e-Skills survey highlighted that more than 26 percent of all available IT positions are unfilled as an upshot of a lack of properly qualified workers. Therefore, for every 4 jobs available around Information Technology (IT), businesses can only locate properly accredited workers for three of the four.

Appropriately skilled and commercially grounded new staff are consequently at a complete premium, and in all likelihood it will stay that way for a long time.

It would be hard to imagine if a better time or market circumstances will exist for acquiring training in this hugely growing and developing business.

One area often overlooked by potential students considering a training program is the issue of ‘training segmentation’. Essentially, this is how the program is broken down into parts for timed release to you, which can make a dramatic difference to the point you end up at.

Many companies enrol you into a program spread over 1-3 years, and send out each piece as you complete each section or exam. On the surface this seems reasonable – until you consider the following:

What happens when you don’t complete every single section? And what if the order provided doesn’t meet your requirements? Through no fault of your own, you may not meet the required timescales and consequently not get all your materials.

Truth be told, the very best answer is to get an idea of what they recommend as an ideal study order, but to receive all the materials up-front. You’re then in possession of everything should you not complete it inside of their required time-scales.

A question; why might we choose qualifications from the commercial sector rather than traditional academic qualifications obtained from tech’ colleges and universities?

With a growing demand for specific technological expertise, industry has moved to the specialised training that can only come from the vendors – for example companies like Adobe, Microsoft, CISCO and CompTIA. This frequently provides reductions in both cost and time.

The training is effectively done through honing in on the skills that are really needed (along with an appropriate level of background knowledge,) instead of covering masses of the background non-specific minutiae that academic courses often do (because the syllabus is so wide).

It’s rather like the advert: ‘It does what it says on the label’. Employers simply need to know what they need doing, and then match up the appropriate exam numbers as a requirement. They’ll know then that all applicants can do what they need.

Beginning with the understanding that we have to choose the market that sounds most inviting first, before we can contemplate which educational program ticks the right boxes, how can we choose the correct route?

Since without any commercial skills in computing, in what way could we know what a particular job actually consists of?

Achieving an informed resolution really only appears via a careful investigation of several changing areas:

* Which type of person you consider yourself to be – what kind of jobs you get enjoyment from, and on the other side of the coin – what don’t you like doing.

* Are you looking to reach a closely held aspiration – like working from home in the near future?

* Is the money you make further up on your priority-list than some other areas.

* Understanding what the normal career roles and sectors are – and what makes them different.

* You will need to appreciate the differences between the myriad of training options.

To be honest, the only way to investigate these matters is through a chat with an advisor that has a background in Information Technology (and specifically the commercial requirements.)

Copyright 2009 Scott Edwards. Try Careers Opportunities or Online Career Advice.

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