The SoNET Web Engine · since 2007
The engine that started Web Design Automation.
In 2007 iRadek Software deployed The SoNET Web Engine v2.0 onto the Internet and made its capabilities available to the general public. From that day, websites no longer had to be built by hand, one at a time: they were generated, dynamic and data-driven, ready to use in a fraction of a second. Low-code, no-code and AI site builders came later. Web Design Automation came first.
"The automated creation of dynamic websites that include fully functional data driven structures and presentation services."Web Design Automation®, defined
Before low-code. Before no-code. Before AI.
It removed the work, not the webmaster.
Web Design Automation removes the need for manual development (coding) and for the underlying tasks, such as database development and administration, that used to come with publishing a website onto a network, public or private. Every database-dependent feature a site needs is created automatically, and turning a feature on or off is a setting in the administration panel.
Building a website by hand
- Code every page, template and feature
- Design, create and administer the database
- Set up hosting, then patch, upgrade and add modules
- Every new site adds to the webmaster's management burden
- Days or weeks before the site is live
Generating it with the SoNET Web Engine
- Over 50 complete sites generated per second, even on 2007 server hardware
- Data structures created automatically
- Built-in, instant hosting for every generated site
- One webmaster can serve many sites without falling behind
- Features switched on or off from the admin panel
One engine, every site
Everything a generated site can do.
Each website the engine generates arrives with the same complete toolset, ready to switch on. No plugins to hunt for, no modules to install.
Dynamic pages without limits
An unlimited number of pages, a section-by-section page builder, ready-made sections and widgets, saved favorites, and Import Page, which rebuilds any web address as a page in the site's own design.
The Template Kit
Server templates with variations, about 1,600 Google fonts, a full color system, gradients, glass, animated backgrounds, hover effects, dark mode and custom CSS, all changed live from the admin.
Blog, journal and RSS
Blog posts and journal entries with authors, tags, drafts, archives, comments with follow-up e-mails, and RSS feeds.
Photos, video and audio
Galleries with ratings and comments, HD and 4K video, MP3 audio, slideshows and video sliders. Uploads are resized and thumbnailed automatically.
A real store
Products, inventory levels, shopping cart, shipping and tax, orders and a customer database, with PayPal, PayFlow, Authorize.Net and Elavon (Converge) payments.
Forms that become customers
A form builder with text, choice, date, number, address, appointment and file-upload fields, picture captchas, multiple forms per page, lead notifications, and every answer saved to the contacts database.
Members and social networks
Member logins and profiles, a members directory, invitations, e-mail verification, privacy levels, fan clubs, classifieds, public announcements and business-to-business messaging. Whole social networks, not just sites.
Run the business from the site
Appointment booking, a public calendar and opening times, contacts and customers, contracts, mass e-mail with opt-in and opt-out, advertising and notifications.
Chat, calls and push
Live chat, Live Call video calls and conferences straight from the website, and push notifications to visitors who allow them.
Every site is an app
Each website is a Progressive Web App: installable on phones and computers, with its own name and icon, and pages kept for offline use.
Built for search and AI answers
SEO tools, custom head tags, a live site map, robots.txt, structured data for the organization, local business details, and an llms.txt file that describes the site to AI answer engines.
An API and deploy-anywhere
A RESTful API with OData and OAuth 2.0, sign-in with Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Twitter and OpenID, cookie-free Insights, whole-site backup, and installs in the Azure cloud, on a public server, or locally and on an intranet.
2026 · the engine with AI on board
Automation first. Now with intelligence.
The engine that automated building websites now builds AI into running them. Every tool below works inside the site's own admin, and nothing an AI drafts goes live until the owner says so.
Looks from a description
Ready-made looks, fresh templates and a tone of voice, proposed by AI inside the Template Kit and previewed before they are applied.
Edit by asking
Describe the change you want to a section and the AI makes it in the editor, with undo, before anything is saved.
Content from a sentence
Sections, pages, blog posts, forms, contracts and products drafted from a plain description, shown as a preview first.
An assistant in the admin
Commands to create, edit, show content, change the design, run the store and automate tasks, with plans the owner approves.
An AI guide for visitors
Answers visitors' questions from the site's own public pages, with links to the right page, voice input and a leave-a-message card.
Words and images on demand
Writing help and picture generation inside the editors, so new pages never wait for a copywriter or a photo shoot.
This website was rebuilt on 28 October 2026 by an AI webmaster that worked through the engine's own admin screens like a person does: it backed up every page first, changed the site, then checked every page as a visitor on a computer and a phone.
About WDA
Why automation still wins.
Administrative input by individual site users is typical of that expected of a normal website owner, administrator or webmaster. Any database-dependent functionality needed by a generated website is automatically created, and turning any data-reliant feature or presentation mechanism on or off requires no more than a setting change in the administration panel.
This avoids the "Increasing Management Burden" of typical web content management systems, where one webmaster administers more and more websites until there is no longer time to give every account a quality service. Web Design Automation removed that bottleneck: people simply serve themselves on WDA platforms.
All genuine WDA software can be installed locally on a single computer, such as a standard notebook or desktop, as well as on a web server on the Internet or an intranet, and it provides built-in, instant hosting for the sites it generates.
WDA does not negate the need for webmasters, developers, graphic artists, web designers, programmers or database specialists. Web Design Automation is meant to serve the vast majority of the general public's needs for creating and publishing websites and social networks on the Internet, quickly.
The direct result of the 2007 innovation is that people now expect to create a website in minutes, with nothing more than a click, and nearly every large web service organization on Earth uses some analogous version of this technology to meet that demand.
iRadek Software builds the SoNET Web Engine. Intergine and LPK7 are web service providers powered by it.
Who runs on it
Consumers and providers, in their own words.
The record
From 2007 to today.
- 2007
Web Design Automation goes public
iRadek Software deploys The SoNET Web Engine v2.0 onto the Internet. Its generation capability exceeds 300,000 websites per hour, per install.
- 2008 onward
Service providers run on the engine
Web service providers such as Intergine and LPK7 let people generate their own complete websites instantly, and merchants build their online business on them.
- 2020
Main Street stays open
During the global pandemic, small businesses on WDA websites keep taking leads, bookings and orders online. Their story is in the case study and webinars.
- 2026
The engine with AI on board
A new admin, the Template Kit's design system, AI that designs, writes, edits and answers visitors, and AI webmasters that run sites through the same admin screens a person uses.
Read next
Straight answers and real results.
A 45-year-old Reno appliance dealer in 2020
75% lower website cost, 20% more leads and 15% more sales during a global pandemic.
Read the case studyHow fast is fast?
Where the time goes between a click and a finished website, and how to measure any site yourself.
Read the articleThe first hour on a new SoNET website
Ten settings that turn a working site into your site, in the order a webmaster does them.
Read the checklistQuestions people ask
What Web Design Automation is, what a generated site includes, AI, security, the API and how to try it.
Read the FAQTo see Web Design Automation in action simply click below to visit Intergine.com - The FASTEST way to getting your own professional website up and running with everything you need included.
WDA does not negate the need for Webmasters, developers, graphic artist, web designers, programmers nor database specialist et al. Web Design Automation is primarily meant to service the vast and overwhelming majority of the needs of the general public in regards to creating and publishing websites and social networks onto the Internet, quickly.