is this a good course
 

home learning direct dream weaver mx
its for web design
the girl next door wants to know before she pays for the course
is it recognised
is it any good please :)
if you have any real info please feel free to pm me :)

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i know its a web thingy but please help she is :blah:

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The Dreamweaver tutorials are very good- what is she actually thinking about doing the course for?

If she is trying to get a webdesign job, i really don't think it will help much tbh. Experience and flare is what counts, and that obviously can't be taught.

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she want to build a website for her partners shop but the course is going to cost money
i dont want them to spend money on a course thats not going to help them :)

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Dodgy ground courses over the net, typicaly in the US you can get diplomas for different things without qualifying, i'd check see if she can get a O.U. course on web design that is more acceptable in the UK.

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Like Chris says, the Dream Weaver tutorials are very good, so I'd suggest she take the time to complete these if not already done. If she's only doing this as a one-off, then learning to use Dream Weaver may be a bit excessive. Yes, it is the best package out there (imo), but it's not the most user-friendly and it's not targetted at novices.

If she's only doing 1 website, maybe she'd be better off buying a Teach Yourself... kind of book. It would definitely work out cheaper.

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What online company is she using for the course? If you get us a link we might be able to tell you whether or not she will get a recognised qualification from it.

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Well Computeach do a wed design course but they are not cheap, and to be honest far to expensive, but they will teach you all about web programming and the likes.

ik

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What kind of website? Just a basic few pages with products and contact details etc? or something a bit bigger? and will people be able to shop online?

It's these sorts of questions that your neighbours need to ask themselves first. If they are just building a small static site where the details/products etc don't need changing very often, I would say that the best bet would be just to use the DW tutorials (like Chris and Gareth say) and perhaps buy a couple of books.

If it's a bigger, more dynamic site, with a shopping basket etc, then just learning how to use DW probably won't be enough anyway and the money could be better spent on buying a pre-made product.

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does this help i should have posted this to start with
http://www.homelearningdirect.com/web_dream.htm:dunce:

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It looks all very basic stuff, I could send you stuff on HTML DHTML CSS JavaScript if you like

ik

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that would be very kind of you:)

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ACPD? New one on me :erm:

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just leave me your email address in PM and I will send you it later today if not latest tommorrow, this was what I got taught from Computeach, on my last stage after learning java.

ik

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cheers and unless i hear otherwise i'll tell her to try a part time course at the local college
i'll look what they have got and come back ;)
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this may be better for her at bolton college £107 is the course fee and £12 is the enrolment but it doesnt say what the qualifacation is :(

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Probably CLAIT or similar might be worth contacting them and asking ;)

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And me. Although I know CLAIT and its a fairly well known entry level computer literacy qualification.

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i will do theres nothing to lose :D
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i found this about the acpd but i'm still non the wiser
has any of you ever heard of it :confused: