On 29 Aug, 04:12, eneel...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm beginning to make a career change from nursing to web technology.
> I'm attempting to become an associate level Certified Internet
> Webmaster. Is this the right path to start out? Erik

There are just no good qualifications in "web stuff". The few that are
good (Cisco networking, Sun Certified Java) are pretty high-end.

CIW isn't a good qualification, but it's not a really bad one. It's
also the only one that has _any_ (albeit little) brand recognition by
employers. So if you don't have to pay to get it, and you learn some
other things too, then it won't actually hurt you. However it's far
from a path to instant riches. It won't teach you much either.

M$oft certification is a joke.

The over-riding "qualification" for web designers is a portfolio of
previous work. You _must_ have this. out your favourite charity
or something.

If you want to learn things, these newsgroups (esp. c.i.w.a.h) are one
of the few accurate resources around. There are any number of "web
tutorials" around, but most are badly inaccurte. As to books, then the
O'Reilly "Head First" series (Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML) is
about the only trustworthy one worth spending money on, followed by
Lie & Bos' "Cascading Style Sheets".