UKWDA - new premium features

[whichwdc]

UKWDA have had a revamp and launched some premium features as part of it - I wondered whether any web designers on here use their premium features and your thoughts on their service?

 

[ITsoldUK]

UKWDA have had a revamp and launched some premium features as part of it - I wondered whether any web designers on here use their premium features and your thoughts on their service?

Nope and more to the point why would we??

Old hat and serves no purpose in my opinion.

Their badge displayed on websites just seem to cry out I AM A PROFESSIONAL YOU KNOW with nothing else tangible to back up the displayers claim.

No like nor use but that is JMTC

 

[FIZIX Agency]

UKWDA is purposeless, you pay a small fee and you can shout "I'M A PRO" on your website. It's purposeless and useless. In fact, kind of misleading.

This is how professional bodies should be maintained: http://sodaspeaks.com/ - that's in it's more extreme form I admit, but you get the picture?

Unless a professional body has tangible entry requirements and process, then it's worthless. My mother could be a member of UKWDA.


Bodies like SODA mean something as there are entry requirements; stringent ones in that case. You get SODA membership and you can put a badge on your site with pride.

If you just pay a few quid/month and there you go, then it's pretty worthless.

 

[astutiumRob]

UKWDA has been pointless for years - we needed some local designers at one point in a specific county, where the client wanted to talk through the site creation with someone local.

Went through the first 20 or so, ISTR only about 4 still existed/had websites, and they were all crap.