In most cases, a average student doesn't know what way to go about starting in a computing career, let alone what market they should be considering getting trained in. How can we possibly grasp the day-to-day realities of any IT job when we haven't done that before? Most likely we don't even know anybody who does that actual job anyway. Reflection on many issues is imperative if you want to reveal the right answer for you:

- Our personalities play a significant part - what things get your juices flowing, and what tasks get you down.

- Is it your desire to reach a specific objective - for instance, working from home sometime soon?

- Where is the salary on a scale of importance - is an increase your main motivator, or does job satisfaction rate higher up on your priority-list?

- Many students don't properly consider the time involved to get fully certified.

- You will need to understand what differentiates the myriad of training options.

For the average person, getting to the bottom of each of these concepts will require meeting with a professional that knows what they're talking about. And we don't just mean the qualifications - but also the commercial expectations and needs of the market as well.

Accredited exam simulation and preparation software is vital - and really must be supplied by your training provider. Some students can find themselves confused by trying to prepare themselves with questions that are not from authorised sources. Sometimes, the question formats and phraseology is unfamiliar and you should be prepared for this. Clearly, it's essential to ensure that you're absolutely ready for your final certified exam prior to going for it. Going over 'mock' tests adds to your knowledge bank and will save a lot of money on unsuccessful attempts at exams.

Web-developers are members of the equation, and also the most technically apt. Not only will web-developers understand the languages mentioned above, they will also have mastered additional languages, for instance 'C#', Visual Basic, PHP, 'Java', ASP.net etc. They will generally also possess a solid knowledge of 'SQL' database technology, because this is one way the majority of significant web-sites store their information. Most e-commerce sites are not the result of a sizable team of web designers who've created many hundreds of web-pages in lay-out form. What typically happens is a place-holder 'template' is built, and the contents are automatically fed from the database to the web site. In addition to being massively more efficient to build, manage and up-date, it also aids in the 'feel' of the web-site remaining constant.

The key thing to stress is the fact that training alone will not make you a web-designer; it will simply teach you the techniques. During your training and study, you have to apply yourself to building & developing as many web-sites as you possibly can, to prepare and assemble your portfolio. Your own web sites can be about anything - the local music scene, horses, a writer you like or performance cars. Start to build inter-active web-sites and create traffic on to them. All this will look more favourable on your CV, & in your Portfolio, than a qualification from Adobe will!

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