Tweed Web Design: Qualifications
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Tweed Web Design Technical Qualifications
After completing a 6 month part-time introductory computer course at Murwillumbah TAFE in 2003, I commenced formal full-time or near full-time IT training at TAFE in 2004 which continued until study culminated in the attainment of Certificate IV Web Design at Kingscliff TAFE in 2006. Some training, including both TAFE and online courses (at both Cnet and HP Courses) was of an overlapping nature which merely served to reinforce the subject content. I also maintain an avid technical reading schedule of books and tutorials as well as web design and web development newsletters to keep up to date on relevant geeky topics. Our formal study and some of the online qualifications we earned are listed below.
- Certificate IV Web Design Kingscliff TAFE 2006
- Award of Excellence for Certificate IV Web Design
- Certificate III Information Technology Murwillumbah TAFE 2005
- Certificate II Information Technology Murwillumbah TAFE 2004
- Award of Excellence for Certificate II Information Technology
- Computers: A First Course Murwillumbah TAFE 2003
- Various Online Courses completed with CNet and HP Courses
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- XML Intro
- JavaScript
- Photoshop
- Web Design
- PHP MySQL
- Dreamweaver
- Flash Animation
- Quark Express Six
- Microsoft Sharepoint
- Project Management
- Maintaining a Home Office
- Maintaining Computer Hardware
- Windows XP Maintenance and Troubleshooting
- Other certificates from what seems like a past life at Sydney Tech College 1978
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- Woolclassing
- Farm Technology
I quite enjoy study and due to my love of the outdoors did extensive personal study in horticulture and agriculture as well as a year and a half of a four year degree of Batchelor of Agricultural Economics which I quite enjoyed but realised was not the life direction that I wished to take and which I discontinued despite pretty good passes in the first year, due to the large amount of economic theory (I still scratch my head thinking about that stuff) and so I could get outdoors and spend more time on the land doing hands-on work. Nowadays, I am in my mid 50s so a more sedate desk job is warranted.
Here be Dragons: Our Future Heading
English map makers of the 1500s, not knowing what lay in the Arctic regions of our lovely planet wrote on their maps the legend "Here be Dragons" and I guess the future for me is something of a dark age Arctic. Despite being offered a Commonwealth Guaranteed Supported place at my choice of three universities to further study Information Technology, I think that I want to get more hands on work rather than continue full time study; home is now Murwillumbah yet despite having all but completed all suitable courses available here I find that still somehow the brain needs newer and newer vistas so, assuming you guys don't have me working from dawn till dusk 24/7, a list of future desirable, web applicable technologies readily presents itself:
- AJAX: Asynchronous JavaScript and XML
- XML: eXtensible Markup Language
- Flash Rich Internet Applications
- More PHP and MySQL database study
- Using XML with Flash
- Flash, Flash and more Flash
Why the preoccupation with Adobe Flash? Well for one, I love Flash, but more importantly I guess, when asked why Adobe (a very large software development company) acquired Macromedia (another very large software development company) at the cost of an extreme financial arm and a leg investment, Adobe replied simply: "Flash".
Enough said.
