just wondered how many people here were CIW certified ?

Im currently studying the CIW courses and should be sitting the associate exam soon

I'm not yet, but gonna possibly consider it... would like to get some sort of web design/development certification... although it might be ASP.NET or something. I'm going on a Crystal Reports course soon so that should be cool...

IME (in my experience), certifications mean far more to employers than any sort of school or college education. I dropped out of college after a year and my GCSEs were nothing to be proud of (nothing higher than a C) but I went out and got a job... 4 years later and I got a huge ammount of experience for my age, a number of certifications and stuff. Think I've only ever been turned down at one interview... (OK maybe 2, but the other one was in waitrose when I was about 15 so it doesn't count!)