Trustworthy Online Dreamweaver Courses?

Thank all of you!

If you must do a course, and obtain certification, then at least don't make it product specific.

As has already been said a Dreamweaver course is only good if your future employers wish you to use Dw, (not many do). AWS certification is only any good if they wish you to use AWS. Similarly an MS course for C# is only any good for C# developers.

Start with learning the basics for yourself, and possibly obtain a 'general' W3C certification such as -

https://www.edx.org/professional-certificate/front-end-web-developer-9

Follow that by a back-end development course in the language of your choice, but be carefull as the most popular languages are not always the highest paid, or the ones most required.

No matter what you do though, you will require 2-3 years experiance before anyone will employ you as a professional developer. Until then you will be 'learning the trade'.

Then if you wish to be promoted, there is always managment courses to consider.

janeller316  wrote I'm looking for Dreamweaver courses. My end goal is to eventually take the certification for professional (not Youtube video) Dreamweaver, but I want to learn more about it first. Does anyone know of any trustworthy companies that offer courses in Dreamweaver?

Why take a course in Dreamweaver, it's pretty pointless unless you want to limit yourself to jobs that only require someone that can use Dreamweaver or if you intend to persue a career as an Abobe program tutor.

As has been mentioned youre better off looking for classes that teach you general html/css/javascript/jQuery/php. Much of the learning can be done via Youtube. There's some better FREE learning channels on that than you can find in a College or Online rip off merchants, who possibly are 2 or 3 years behind the curve.

I would have to agree with the others here: the ACE exams are pretty much worthless*. Perhaps if you want to get a teaching job it might help a bit, but you are far better off learning the actual technologies behind web development.

ACE is a money cow milked by Adobe. Instead, if you really need to, get some properly recognized certification, just as EbaySeller suggested.

* my own experience: I was certified for four Adobe products. An absolute waste of time and money. Luckily the training company where I worked paid for the expenses.

janeller316  wrote My end goal is to eventually take the certification for professional (not Youtube video) Dreamweaver

That's a terrible end goal. Keep in mind that professionally-speaking a Dreamweaver certification will do absolutely nothing for you, unless you want real professional developers to laugh at you when you proudly say "I'm Dreamweaver Certified!". That's what I come here for though: the laughs.

Dreamweaver != professional

If you want to get a certification that is widely-recognized by the professional development community then I would recommend working on obtaining your AWS Developer Certification. I have all 3 associate level certs - now working on obtaining the 2 professional certs - and they have served me well in terms of being recognized in the professional development community (lots of recruiter emails, job offers, higher pay, etc.). Or get one of the many java certifications. Dreamweaver cert is nothing but a waste of time and money though.

If you just want to learn how to use Dreamweaver, I can recommend Lynda.com.  Their online subscription courses are peer reviewed for accuracy and quality.

Nancy

My advice is to learn all you can about Web Design Theory, HTML, CSS and JavaScript first.   The ACE exam will ask you things that are not entirely specific to Dreamweaver.   Keep in mind that the ACE exams probably have not been updated in a while.  So you may be asked questions relating to previous versions (2014 or 2015) which are very different from the current release version.

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Unless you plan to teach at an Adobe Authorized Training Center or write books on the software, I see no personal or professional gain from taking ACE exams.  IMO,  ACE proves nothing other than your ability to prep & take tests.   My clients have never once asked for it and never will.  Dreamweaver is only one of the tools I use in my profession.

Good luck!

Nancy