Just a hello and a small question

Quite a long time ago I visited this forum and logged in. A lot of things in my life changed. I don’t if old members still here, I only remember one name, something like tofiba.

Certification for Web Devlopers/masters/designers in Saudi Arabia (probably through online study)

Well I have a small question. I have few years of experience of web master and web development. I didn’t work in a team so that I cannot compare whether I am good in my job or not. To proceed more in this field I am thinking of some certifications. But very sad to say, in Saudi Arabia there very poor opportunities for education.

First thing it is very expensive as compared to Pakistan. Second thing it is discrimination, Saudis can get easily, non Saudis got troubles. There is an institute for I.T education that is about few hundred km from Jeddah in Yanbu city and still there are no classes there.

I don’t know if there are options for me to get certification course online, I believe if I go for certification, I must have that knowledge or education, I don’t want to go through Test King etc.

I search the term over google ‘certification for web developers’ and found some information on that.

  • CIW
  • Microsoft Certifications (MCSD)
  • W3C certifications
  • Brainbench certification

To go for any of them I must study them. CIW certifications and MCSD are healthy options. I don’t know if anybody here gone through these certifications. If you have knowledge about them please share it here.

The purpose behind this certification is to get promotion in my job in Saudi Arabian market, I am here and I have idea, there are opportunities.

Re: Just a hello and a small question

For these certifications, you don’t necessarily need to go to classroom for study. There are training videos available from sites like TrainSignal and CBT, you can get more training from these videos as compared to classrooms. And if you have experience in the field, you may only need a light training.

Re: Just a hello and a small question

Thats right. Not a big training is required. I will check your site and try to learn things from it. That is OK for Web Developer type issues. But I feel I need to study Dot net in some classroom type of thing because my this side is weak.

Any more suggestions.