If you want to get all techy, set up an online business at home, play around on a computer or just get on the web, it's easy and it's out there.

You just need to know where to look.

Brighton College of Technology's information and communications AS-Level course offers a solid, recognised qualification in the understanding of software and hardware and their relevance in the work place. The course costs £171, including tuition fees.

If you are short on confidence and want the basics, sign up at the same college for the Return to Learn course. It costs £49 and gives you a refresher in information technology skills, personal development, English and maths.

If you have cash to spare and local courses do not have what you want, log on to NCR e-academy's web site. It runs certified internet webmaster foundation courses. Prices start at £350.

Waterstones has Linguaphone online language courses taking you from beginner through to intermediate level with audio and video clips, an inbuilt testing system and a dictionary.

You can get online and cyber-surf for only 50 pence (for five minutes) with Webpoint UK's internet kiosks. There is one in Brighton's Churchill Square.

This provides easy, coin-operated web surfing with email access, the opportunity to type a bit, familiarise yourself with a keyboard and use a PC.

If you're short of time and money, pop into one of Brighton and Hove's 15 libraries and use one of more than 60 public access internet points for free. Users can have a maximum of two hours per session. Email and word-processing costs £1.50 for 30 minutes.

Brighton and Hove council's Lifelong Learning courses have proved a great success and more of these free, information technology training courses are planned for the rest of the year. Keep watching the web site for details.

Hove library offers Learndirect courses (ring 0800 100 900 or visit the web site), available online and covering multi-media, basic and business skills. They can also be bought on a series of CD-ROMS or videos. Other Learndirect centres include Brighton College of Technology, Whitehawk Inn, Lewes Tertiary College, Hastings College of Art and Technology, and Plumpton College.

www.bricoltech.ac.uk
www.ncr-e-cademy.com
www.linguaphone.co.uk
www.webpoint-kiosk.com
www.brighton-hove.gov.uk /bhc/libraries