httpwebwitch - 4:38 am on Dec 14, 2009 (gmt 0)

>> nothing like this was ever assembled

Actually several so-called certification organizations have existed for webmastery, but none ever caught on with the ubiquity of a certifying body. Some were training courses, so what they offered - though they called it a certification - it was actually just a diploma.

Microsoft has certification programs, and their designations do carry weight in the industry, especially if you're in IT working with high-end Microsoft products. If any organization were able to create a simlar program for the WWW, it would be the W3C.

I was a member of the "HTML Writer's Guild" once upon a time. That was so fake, it was a kind of joke. I had the certificate framed and hung it in my cubicle for many years.

Come to think of it, I know one other "organization" with the clout and authority to offer certification. It's WebmasterWorld. I could imagine a grass-roots certifying body could emerge from this forum and its members, if interest and demand were sufficient.