If you’d like to become a web designer with relevant qualifications for the job market today, the course you need is Adobe Dreamweaver.

We’d also suggest that you learn all about the entire Adobe Web Creative Suite, which includes Flash and Action Script, to have the facility to utilise Dreamweaver as a commercial web-designer. These skills can take you on to becoming either an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) or an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).

Building the website only scratches the surface of what you’ll need – in order to drive traffic, update content, and work on dynamic sites that are database driven, you will need other programming skills, namely ones like PHP, HTML, and MySQL. A good web designer will additionally gain a working knowledge of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) and E-Commerce.

So, why is it better to gain commercial qualifications rather than familiar academic qualifications gained through schools, colleges or universities?

The IT sector is now aware that to learn the appropriate commercial skills, certified accreditation from the likes of CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA most often has much more specialised relevance – saving time and money.

They do this by focusing on the particular skills that are needed (together with an appropriate level of related knowledge,) rather than spending months and years on the background ‘extras’ that academic courses can often find themselves doing – to pad out the syllabus.

It’s a bit like the TV advert: ‘It does what it says on the label’. All an employer has to do is know what they’re looking for, and then match up the appropriate exam numbers as a requirement. They’ll know then that all applicants can do what they need.

If your advisor doesn’t ask you a lot of questions – the likelihood is they’re really a salesperson. If someone pushes specific products before understanding your background and current experience level, then you know you’re being sold to.

Where you have a strong background, or maybe some live experience (some industry qualifications maybe?) then it’s likely the level you’ll need to start at will be quite dissimilar from someone who is just starting out.

Consider starting with some basic user skills first. This can set the scene for your on-going studies and make the learning curve a little less steep.

Doing your bit in revolutionary new technology really is electrifying. You become one of a team of people impacting progress around the world.

Technological changes and interaction via the web is going to radically change the way we live our lives over future years; incredibly so.

The usual IT professional in the United Kingdom has been shown to get much more money than his or her counterpart outside of IT. Average wages are amongst the highest in the country.

It’s no secret that there is a substantial UK-wide need for trained and qualified IT technicians. And as growth in the industry shows little sign of contracting, it seems this pattern will continue for the significant future.

Most of us would love to think that our careers will always be secure and our work prospects are protected, but the growing likelihood for the majority of jobs in the United Kingdom at the moment seems to be that there is no security anymore.

In times of growing skills shortages coupled with increasing demand of course, we generally reveal a new kind of market-security; as fuelled by conditions of continuous growth, employers are struggling to hire the staff required.

The computer industry skills-gap across the country currently stands at around twenty six percent, as noted by a recent e-Skills survey. Basically, we can’t properly place more than just three out of every 4 jobs in the computing industry.

This alarming concept underpins the requirement for more appropriately accredited computing professionals in the United Kingdom.

While the market is developing at such a rate, could there honestly be a better area of industry worth investigating for retraining.

(C) Scott Edwards 2009. Visit Web Designer Courses or Click HERE.