On Aug 29, 5:43 am, Andy Dingley <ding...@codesmiths.com> wrote:
> 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".

Great advice. This will be ful for me. Thanks.