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As a CIW candidate I finally booked my Certified Internet Webmaster Site Designer (1D0-520) exam. The previous night I had some serious hours of book cramming and thought I better get an early night in order to wake up bright eyed and bushy tailed for the exam the next morning.
I sat the second exam at the New Horizons Computer Learning Centre located in Edinburgh, Canonmills, which is a Prometric Testing Centre. I passed the Site Designer exam with 100% on the test and am now a qualified CIW Professional.
The training material for the second exam on the CIW Designer Certification Series consisted of two rather thick books all related to the curriculum Design Methodology and Technology covering the following topics:
Web Site Development Essentials
- site development process
- customer expectations
- ethical and legal issues in Web development
Web Design Elements
- aesthetics
- site user’s experience
- navigation
- usability
- accessibility
Basic Web Technologies
- HTML
- XHTML
- extended technologies
- image files
- GUI site development applications
- site publishing and maintenance
Advanced Web Technologies
- multimedia and plug-in technologies
- client-side
- server-side technologies
- web databases
What next then CIW E-Commerce Designer exam (1D0-525) perhaps? Well if I can get hold of the E-Commerce Designer self-study kit, which is only one exam away from possessing a Master CIW Designer Certification. Then I could add this to my curriculum vitae as further progress of my skills as learning continues…
December 16th, 2008
Google Incorporated will launch its own free open source Web Browser, called “Chrome”. This will be available for download on the morning of Wednesday 3rd September 2008, Pacific Standard Time (PST) in over 100 countries.
This is Google’s pet project to compete against the web browser market of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox’s dominance on the overall web.
Google Chrome Comic Book is a detailed 38-page comic adaptation explaining the main features what their web browser has to offer. The five main features are: Stability, Speed, Search and the User Experience, Security and Standards.
Google Chrome looks to be clean, simple and fast while also adapting to newer applications. There is only a Windows Beta release so far but they are working hard on building versions for Mac & Linux as well.
Download the new Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows
September 2nd, 2008
Got an old mobile in the drawer that you no longer use? Think it’s totally useless and are thinking of throwing it out. Well why not check out this site and see if your mobile is worth any money. This way you could benefit in your pocket as well as helping the environment. Please note that this site is only available to users in the United Kingdom.
This site has a simple to use search facility you just select the Manufacturer of your phone and type in the model number and click the find now button. It will then search through its database to see if it has your mobile phone if it does then you could earn a substantial amount.
However if your phone is say more than 5 years old then the phone will probably be of little value but http://www.envirofone.com can recycle the parts and dispose of the phone for you. An extra bonus on this site is that even if your mobile phone is damaged or broken in anyway they may still pay you up to 90% for the phone.
September 1st, 2008
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