It's essential to appreciate that even the very best web design courses can only teach you the techniques & procedures - none of them will be able to convert you in to a professional web designer. Throughout your training and study, you need to spend time constructing & creating as many sites as possible, to practice & build your portfolio. Produce sites about your hobby, your family, your favourite music group or even TV programme. Start inter-active websites and create 'traffic' to them. This will all look more favourable on your Curriculum Vitae, and in your portfolio, than a document from Adobe will!

Be on the lookout that any certifications that you're considering are commercially relevant and are up-to-date. The 'in-house' certifications provided by many companies are usually worthless. Only properly recognised examinations from the likes of Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco and CompTIA will mean anything to employers.

Some other skill sets which are highly relevant to web-site designers in the commercial market are an in-depth understanding of e-commerce and project-management. SEO ('Search Engine Optimisation') knowledge is very valuable for web-experts - this is the skill of getting websites at or near to the top of the Search Engines like Google for frequently used keyword phrases. And in the background but vitally important are the web-server installers & administrators that make sure that the whole thing runs smoothly. Officially speaking these people are network administrator professionals though.

Web-developers are the most technically trained of all. Not only will web developers know the languages already mentioned, they will also have studied additional languages, for example C#, Visual Basic, 'PHP', Java, ASP.net and so on. And because most contemporary websites of any kind of size 'store' their data using 'SQL' database technology, they're likely to have a solid handle SQL also. A regular E-commerce web-site doesn't have a bunch of web designers who've developed its thousands of pages in layout format. Rather, a place-holder template will have been built, and the details will be 'dynamically' loaded from a database. Apart from being hugely easier to construct, manage & up-date, it also aids in the feel of the website remaining consistent.

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