World Wide Web Design Automation Organization
W3DA certifies webmasters who build, test and run websites to the discipline of Web Design Automation, on The SoNET Web Engine. It is earned by proving the work on a live website, examined the way a visitor meets it. Never by a multiple-choice quiz.
The credentials
Each level is examined on real work. The letters after a holder's name mean the same thing everywhere, because every candidate is held to the same published thresholds.
Builds a complete small-business site on The SoNET Web Engine, fast on a phone, accessible and true in every word.
Delivers sites that sell, book and take enquiries, tests them as a stranger would, and reports defects with evidence.
Runs a whole platform install: many sites, levels and subscriptions, under the full W3DA Standard, for weeks at a time.
The organization's highest honour, for Master Webmasters whose work has raised the standard for others.
Why it is respected
Examiners open the candidate's site as an anonymous visitor, on a desktop and on a phone, and press every button a customer would.
Phone speed, accessibility, text contrast and phone layout are measured against fixed thresholds. A score below the line is a fail, whatever the design.
One invented review, price or claim fails the examination. A W3DA holder publishes only what is true about the business and its owner.
The engine is updated continuously. Credentials are renewed every two years with a fresh audit of the holder's current work.
Founded on Web Design Automation
Web Design Automation (WDA) is a way of running websites with the care of an engineer: look, act, wait, look again; back up before every change; change one thing, then verify it as a visitor; write down everything learned so the next person starts smarter.
The technology
Every examination is sat on The SoNET Web Engine, a platform that puts the whole small-business website in one place: pages and sections, a design system (the Template Kit), an online store, bookings, forms, a blog, members-only areas, an installable phone app, an AI concierge and search tools, plus a Root Admin that runs many sites from one install.
One platform means one fair test: every candidate faces the same tools, and every holder can be trusted with any site built on it.
This certifies that
has met the W3DA Standard and holds the credential of
Candidacy
Tell us who you are, the level you are aiming for, and a website you have built. We reply with the next examination window and what to prepare.
The World Wide Web Design Automation Organization certifies webmasters on The SoNET Web Engine to the W3DA Standard.