Learndirect Scotland Dreamweaver course: Anyone done it?

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Had a visit from one of their staff tonight to explain the course to me.

I'm thinking about going for it.

Has anyone here done the course or is anyone here in the process of doing it?.

Any thoughts/recommendations?.

This is the one I am thinking about signing up for:-

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Oh for the love of God please don't waste your money on this. You'll learn more from on here than you would on that, it took me years to escape DW after being lazy enough to rely on its processes to design. Nothing in DW isn't better achieved by your own fair hands. Code view yes, design view hell no...
 
I learned Dreamweaver myself with a couple of books. There is no need to do a course.

And I've learned to code XHTML and CSS myself recently. I would say get a couple of XHTML/CSS books and learn that way. Forget Dreamweaver. You can preview in a browser as you work.
 
even the code view in dreamweaver is pretty pants, notepad++ has much better syntax highlighting. DW is pretty decent for CSS editing though.
 
£1400 :eek: :eek: :eek:

I'll teach you proper, clean, effective web design for a grand!

Seriously, we can teach you more than that. And create legal, accessible, user-friendly, easy-to-update sites. HTML is really, really straightforward - it's just a markup language afterall, not a programming language :)

The real beauty comes in how CSS styling is used. It's also pretty straightforward once you've got the hang of the general ethos :)
 
that is an extraordinary amount of cash for learning very little.

I taught myself 100x more than on their course by following W3C Schools online, examining straightforward CSS templates at OSWD, and then playing around. I use CSS Play quite a lot for advanced functions, eg pure CSS flyout menus.

you will waste your money with such a simple course.
 
£1,445 to teach yourself to use Dreamweaver, sounds like a crazy idea to me.

Rather than learning to use a program that does everything for you, I'd learn (X)HTML and CSS, then you can transfer those skills into any website development program, rather than limiting yourself to one.

The following websites are good places to learn (X)HTML and CSS:

It's also a good idea to read about the Semantics and Structure of (X)HTML as well as Web Standards.
 
Thats a lot of money for a course - i don't know what funding is like in scotland but 60 hours of tutored tuition here at my local college is £240. That course your looking at is self study.

If you have the dicipline for self study your better going the route the others have suggested and learn it yourself without shelling out loads of cash.

Other alternatives for less money are:
Open Uni - Design and the web
Open Uni - Web Applications Development

But really i'd go for the self taught method
 
Thanks for the feedback folks.

I think you are right, it seems an awful lot of cash for the end result.

Appreciate the links posted, some excellent info on those websites.

I have purchased a Dreamweaver 8 tutorial DVD and after working through the first few chapters I am finding it easy to understand and quite informative.

Does anyone know if its possible to apply for and attain the ACITP qualification by just paying a few and sitting an exam?.

I would imagine it is but I'm not sure?.
 
You'll find most employers won't be interested in qualifications with regards to web development - they'll just want to see past examples of sites and source code.

There are very few formal qualifications to be had in this profession, the only one really worth doing (that I'm aware of) is the Zend certification and even then it probably won't be required by anyone looking to employ you.

Please try and stay away from Dreamweaver until you at least know the basics behind it all, it's like learning to be a chef by preparing ready-meals.
 
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