web qualifications?

Raumarik

Raumarik

Raumarik

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Morning chaps, anyone know of any recognised web qualifications? I work in I.T. but generally desktop/server but have the opportunity to add a web authoring/design qualification through my work, it has to be something fairly recognised in the industry though, otherwise they simply won't fund it.

Any suggestions? must be certificated too. Cost isn't a huge factor, although obviously it is to my boss :)

I've a little HTML/php/cgi/ASP script knowledge and generally use dreamweaver for work on our internal sites along with notepad :p
 
You could do the Zend certification for PHP, which is fairly well known and regarded. Other than that, I'd say most, if not all, 'qualifications' for web design and development are worth jack. Personally, I would spend the time developing a solid portfolio over using it to study for a bit of paper.
 
I want to do the MySQL Bootcamp, but it's a tad pricey at just shy of £5k :D

as Augmented said, it's not a case of having qualifications - there's plenty of people with qualifications that can't do the work - you're best getting yourself any kind of experience - it's worth twice its weight in qualifications
 
i run a web design company and i'd say 90% of my opinion of potential employees is based on past work, qualifications are jack in artistic fields i think... Dave Grohl from the foo fighters aint got a degree in music but damn me if he aint good :D

1) flair
2) experience
...
10) qualifications

;)
 
Hmm might be worthwhile using my domain name again, I did have a decent one up and running but pulled it when money got tights a couple of years ago. I had a lot of fun doing it too :)

cheers chaps!
 
That link doesnt work SiriusB, you got a

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stuck at the end by mistake :)


From what I've gathered, qualifications don't mean much in the web design/development industry. Its all about experience and portfolio which is helped by doing some courses ie uni course, but its mostly down to getting a good portfolio of work!
But it always seems catch-22, people won't employ you unless you have experience, so how do you get the experience? :/ Lucky break > giving up!
 
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@tsinc

It was a Ninja edit :p but I thought you were still having a problem.

@Rob

I said it was the dog's danglies. Not perfect!

I will however change my code accordingly :)
 
the 'correct' markup that should be used to display coding.

in siriusb's case he used a <p> tag with the class of "code", but in html there is a <code> tag, which, which he should have used instead.

the <pre> is used because it maintains whitespace, line breaks, and also renders the contents using a fixed width font.
 
A decent portfolio will do you much better than some dodgy qualification.

Perhaps offer to make a couple of smallish local companies a website for free or a very low fee to build it up. Friends or family etc.
 
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