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rtg posted this at 19:19—24th October 2007.

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Hi everyone,

I'm a Webmaster for a law firm in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. My formal education is actually in Library & Information Technology, but I was promoted to full-time Webmaster when the position opened up this past summer.

I also manage a website on a volunteer basis for my local library technicians association.

My web skills are pretty much self-taught at the moment, but I will be taking some courses and getting formal certification this Spring.

Rob

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teammatt3 posted this at 21:17—24th October 2007.

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Hi Rob, welcome to TWF! I live in the original Vancouver (sorry, I just had to say that) Wink .

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JeevesBond posted this at 09:19—25th October 2007.

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Both named after George Vancouver, who was British ... suckers! Laughing out loud My formal education is a degree in Village Idiotry, but soon realised that one can make a career of being an idiot on the Internet too. The competition is a lot stronger though, of course. Smiling

Errr, anyway, I'm not always that embarrassingly stupid, honestly. Glad to hear about your promotion Rob, good luck in the new role and we're glad to have you with us!

Rob wrote: My web skills are pretty much self-taught at the moment, but I will be taking some courses and getting formal certification this Spring.

Mine are almost entirely self-taught, have a good look at those courses and make sure they're going to teach you something useful. The Web moves fast, usually a lot faster than educational institutions can keep up with. Smiling

Not that tech education in general is a bad thing to do, but those Web courses are worrying. It's probably better to get a good Computer Science or Maths course under your belt, since those will teach you the principals of computing, then learning about the Web will simply be a case of building on that knowledge. Smiling

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Megan posted this at 13:23—25th October 2007.