If you'd like to get involved in a web design team, an Adobe Dreamweaver course is essential to achieve relevant qualifications that are globally recognised. We also advise that students get an in-depth understanding of the complete Adobe Web Creative Suite, including Flash and Action Script, to have the facility to use Dreamweaver as a commercial web-designer. This can take you on to becoming an ACP (Adobe Certified Professional) or an ACE (Adobe Certified Expert).

Constructing a website is only the start of the necessary skill-set for professional web-designers today. You'd be wise to find a course that incorporates subjects such as PHP, HTML, MySQL, E-Commerce and SEO (Search Engine Optimisation,) to enable you to know how to maintain content, drive traffic and work with database driven sites.

So, why might we choose commercial qualifications rather than familiar academic qualifications taught at schools, colleges or universities? With university education costs spiralling out of control, plus the industry's recognition that corporate based study is closer to the mark commercially, there has been a great increase in CISCO, Adobe, Microsoft and CompTIA certified training programmes that supply key solutions to a student for considerably less. Academic courses, for example, become confusing because of a lot of loosely associated study - and a syllabus that's too generalised. This holds a student back from learning the core essentials in sufficient depth.

What if you were an employer - and you wanted someone who could provide a specific set of skills. What's the simplest way to find the right person: Go through loads of academic qualifications from graduate applicants, trying to establish what they know and which commercial skills they've acquired, or choose particular accreditations that precisely match your needs, and then choose your interviewees based around that. The interview is then more about the person and how they'll fit in - rather than on the depth of their technical knowledge.

Adding in the cost of exams up-front and presenting it as a guarantee for your exams is popular with many companies. However, let's consider what's really going on:

They've allowed costings for it one way or another. It certainly isn't free - they've just worked it into the package price. Qualifying on the first 'go' is what everyone wants to do. Taking your exams progressively one at a time and funding them one at a time puts you in a much stronger position to qualify at the first attempt - you revise thoroughly and are mindful of the investment you've made.

Sit the exam as locally as possible and go for the best offer you can find when you're ready. Including money in your training package for examinations (plus interest - if you're financing your study) is a false economy. It's not your job to boost the training company's account with extra money of yours just to give them more interest! A lot bank on the fact that you won't get round to taking them - then they'll keep the extra money. You should fully understand that re-takes with training course providers who offer an 'Exam Guarantee' are monitored with tight restrictions. They will insist that you take pre-tests first until you've demonstrated an excellent ability to pass.

Paying maybe a thousand pounds extra on an 'Exam Guarantee' is naive - when consistent and systematic learning, coupled with quality exam simulation software is what will really see you through.

A study programme should always lead to a widely recognised qualification as an end-result - and not some unimportant 'in-house' printed certificate to hang in your hallway. You'll find that only recognised qualifications from the top companies like Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco and Adobe will have any meaning to employers.

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