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.

Karen Field was ready to launch a serious business site. She wanted a place to gain newsletter subscribers, promote her products, and round up issues of her email newsletter. She asked that we use a photo her husband had taken of a butterfly, and so we incorporated it into the header of her site. We also added a photo of her to each page so that visitors would feel like they were getting to know her.

There’s also space for a rotating testimonial on each page so that visitors can see all of the positive feedback Karen gets from her clients.

Karen’s site is now easy to update, and she makes updates frequently. It’s also a warm, welcoming place for her clients and prospects as well.

Brand Dame Lyn Chamberlin needed a new identity. She was ready for a professional website, blog, and email newsletter design–and that’s exactly what we gave her.

The new skyePR.com site makes use of her brown and orange color scheme and provides a fresh, clean showcase for her branding work. Using an event calendar plugin, Lyn’s able to easily deliver an up-to-date speaking event calendar to her website visitors. The site also generates an updated, random list of posts from her blog to ensure there’s up-to-the-minute content for her website visitors.

The site also reinforces the design we developed for both her email newsletter and blog–creating an integrated online identity for Lyn Chamberlin and skyePR.

Read what Lyn had to say about working with us

Like the cobbler children who have no shoes, I realized that I had outgrown my brand. Here I am, being sought after as an expert in… Keep reading.

C.J. Hayden wanted to create a hub site for all of her projects. She planned to use WordPress as her CMS as she had for other sites in the past.

She had an illustration for her front page and asked us to complete the WordPress coding and design a layout for the internal pages. She wanted something that made use of layers and had a textured appeal.

The biggest challenge, programming-wise, was that she wanted some internal pages to make use of an additional scroll sidebar. We created a special page template for those pages that would have a scroll, and layered the scroll image over the page template. By attaching the scroll to a widget, C.J. can easily update each scroll’s content.

C.J.’s Feedback

Jessica is a delight to work with. She’s helped me create three WordPress websites. Most recently, she built a customized site for me completely… Keep reading.

A local Realtor needed a website for properties she had listed in a specific community in North Topsail Beach (on Topsail Island, NC). We created an easily-updated website that she was able to add and subtract listings from as she gained and sold listings.

The Realtor was able to use the site to build a community among homeowners in the neighborhood and soon had six listings (out of 43 homes). The site was very popular with buyers, sellers, and other real estate agents and continued to be useful for owners seeking to rent their new homes as vacation properties.

This site was built in HTML and CSS and updated using the client’s choice of website editing software.