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How to pick a font: Curly Quotes

Jessica Albon — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:41:57 +0000

While working on an html email design for a client, I was playing with curly quotes to add some extra interest and got to wondering which fonts other people love for their curly quotes. So I asked on Twitter and I got lots of great replies on how to pick a font for curly quotes. Yay.

Introducing Thrive Your Tribe

Jessica Albon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:52:23 +0000

I've been working under The Write Exposure name since 2000. Originally, I was doing a lot of ghost writing for client newsletters. Within about 6 months, I'd moved into HTML email newsletter design. By 2001, the business was more than 50% design, but by then I was attached to the business name. I had business cards, after all ;-). So, I continued building a business called The Write Exposure. But, the name proved hard to spell over the phone, so I registered DesignDoodles.com so that I could give people an alternate, easy-to-spell name.

Newsletters in Focus

Jessica Albon — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 01:30:56 +0000

Newsletter archive website, we designed the two-column layout to offer both advertising for sale (directly from the site publisher) and to run Google ads. Site is updated weekly and makes use of several excellent plugins and decorative drop cap functionality.

Yummylicious

Jessica Albon — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:18:32 +0000

Lisa Evans had purchased a blog theme (from another company) but she wasn’t quite happy with it and wanted some customizations.

She contacted us to make the look of the template her own. One thing she knew was that she wanted to include a photo of herself in the header, so we tried out several different photos she sent us until she decided on the one she liked best. We also created an entire custom header for her, selecting a font that captured the essence of her Yummylicious brand. We created a new color scheme for her, changed the navigation to make it better suit her needs, and integrated her new brand throughout the blog.

The Brand Dame

Jessica Albon — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 05:08:06 +0000

The Brand Dame is Lyn Chamberlin’s branding blog built in WordPress. She connects with readers on a regular basis delivering news related to personal and professional branding.

Lyn wanted an unique illustrated header, so we worked with the illustrator of her choice to have something she absolutely loved created. She also wanted to make good use of social networking and bookmarking along with Twitter, and Flickr, all of which found a place on her website through WordPress plugins.

GNE Journal

Jessica Albon — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:30:04 +0000

One column theme designed in WordPress. Made extensive use of plugins to protect against spam and to facilitate commenting and social bookmarking. Site made several thousand dollars in sales in the 30 days that it was active (with about 100 readers).

Marcom Writer Blog

Jessica Albon — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:23:36 +0000

Dianna Huff, a marketing communications copywriter, wanted to start a blog to build her reputation online and in the social networking arena. Since we’d designed her HTML email newsletter, she also asked us to create her blog. Using WordPress, we designed a blog template that both built her brand identity and also united her website and email newsletter designs.