Potential Students hopeful to begin a career in computers and technology generally don't know what path they should take, let alone which area to get certified in. How can we possibly grasp what is involved in a particular job if we've never been there? Maybe we don't know someone who performs the role either. Usually, the way to come at this quandary appropriately flows from an in-depth discussion of a number of areas:

- Which type of person you consider yourself to be - the tasks that you get enjoyment from, plus of course - what don't you like doing.

- Are you looking to reach an important goal - like working from home sometime soon?

- How highly do you rate salary - is it of prime importance, or is job satisfaction higher up on the scale of your priorities?

- Getting to grips with what typical IT roles and markets are - and what makes them different.

- How much effort you will spend on obtaining your certification.

To be honest, the only way to research these areas tends to be through a good talk with an advisor that understands the IT industry (and chiefly it's commercial needs.)

A fatal Faux-Pas that we encounter all too often is to concentrate on the course itself, rather than starting with the desired end-result. Universities are brimming over with unaware students that chose an 'interesting' course - instead of what would yield their end-goal of a job they enjoyed. Never let yourself become part of the group who select a program which looks like it could be fun - only to end up with a qualification for an unrewarding career path.

Spend some time thinking about the income level you aspire to and how ambitious you are. This will influence what precise accreditations you'll need to attain and what industry will expect from you in return. Seek help from an industry professional that appreciates the market you're interested in, and will be able to provide 'A day in the life of' synopsis of what kinds of tasks you'll be undertaking on a day-to-day basis. It's sensible to discover if this is the right course of action for you before you commence your studies. What's the reason in starting to train and then realise you've made a huge mistake.

You should only consider learning courses which will progress to industry approved exams. There are loads of small colleges suggesting 'in-house' certificates which are worthless when it comes to finding a job. If the accreditation doesn't feature a conglomerate such as Microsoft, CompTIA, Cisco or Adobe, then you'll probably find it could have been a waste of time and effort - because it won't give an employer any directly-useable skills.

The key tools utilised by web-designers are their design-environments, with Adobe Creative Suite (now in Version 4 as of 2009/2010) staying essentially the most popular commercially. Whilst Adobe Flash provides access to animated and interactive graphical content, 'Dreamweaver' is the software program which builds web pages. You could say that 'Dreamweaver' is the Word-Processor of the Adobe Creative Suite range. It allows you to lay text & graphics in accordance with specific rules & parameters, & then create basic inter-activity via page-linking. Just like other web design environments, Dreamweaver produces the program code HTML in the background ('HTML' stands for 'Hyper Text Markup Language'). Essentially, this language of web browsers' is a script that 'draws' & controls the web page being viewed. Lay-out tag languages like XML & CSS are matched up with HTML. These tag languages enable more streamlined 'HTML' code and more effective layout methods, which will work on multiple-platforms (as they're standardised). The concept being that the web page will appear identical on any browser, whether it's Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, 'Opera' or anything else. So even though you place the graphic blocks & add the text, Dreamweaver is turning this into code in the background. If you are going to be a commercially viable web designer, you'll need an in-depth knowledge of these languages.

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