If you're considering a web design career, you will need to study Adobe Dreamweaver. Additionally, it's good practice that you learn all about the full Adobe Web Creative Suite, including Flash and Action Script, in order to facilitate Dreamweaver professionally as a web designer. These skills can take you on to becoming either an Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) or an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE).

Knowing how to design a website is simply the first base. Traffic creation, maintaining content and some programming skills should come next. Think about training that also contain modules to cover these skills for example HTML, PHP and database engines like MySQL, as well as Search Engine Optimisation and E Commerce.

Finding your first job in the industry is often made easier if you're offered a Job Placement Assistance service. The need for this feature can be bigged up out of proportion though - it's easy for their marketing department to overplay it. The fact of the matter is, the need for well trained IT people in Great Britain is what will enable you to get a job.

However, don't procrastinate and wait until you've finished your training before updating your CV. The day you start training, list what you're working on and get it out there! Many junior support roles have been offered to trainees who're still on their course and have still to get qualified. This will at the very least get you on your way. Actually, a specialist independent regional employment agency - who make their money when they've found you a job - will perform better than any recruitment division from a training organisation. It also stands to reason that they'll know the area and local employers better.

Please make sure you don't put hundreds of hours of effort into your studies, then call a halt and imagine someone else is miraculously going to land you a job. Stand up for yourself and make your own enquiries. Invest the same focus into landing a good job as you did to get trained.

OK, why ought we to be looking at commercial qualifications rather than the usual academic qualifications gained through the state educational establishments? Corporate based study (to use industry-speak) is more effective in the commercial field. The IT sector has realised that such specialised knowledge is necessary to cope with a technically advancing workplace. Microsoft, CompTIA, CISCO and Adobe are the key players in this arena. Essentially, the learning just focuses on what's actually required. It's not quite as straightforward as that, but principally the objective has to be to concentrate on the fundamentally important skill-sets (along with a certain amount of crucial background) - without going into too much detail in every other area (as degree courses are known to do).

When it comes down to the nitty-gritty: Recognised IT certifications let employers know exactly what you're capable of - it says what you do in the title: for example, I am a 'Microsoft Certified Professional' in 'Planning and Maintaining a Windows 2003 Infrastructure'. Therefore companies can identify just what their needs are and what certifications will be suitable to deal with those needs.

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