By Jessica Albon
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.
I wanted to share some of my own favorites with you–so, here you have it, five great font choices for curly quotes. Curly quotes are especially popular for pull quotes (those fancy “Here’s part of the article, set apart, for decoration” quotes you often seen in high-end design and magazines), but they can be used in all kinds of situations.
Garamond Bold curly quotes
Academy Engraved LET Thin curly quotes
Headline One curly quotes
Pigiarniq curly quotes
Guanine curly quotes
As you can see, the font you choose for your curly quotes you use …
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By Jessica Albon
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 
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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.
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By Jessica Albon
Karen Field was in the market for a professional website design so she could launch a serious business site. She planned to use this website to provide her clients with new content, promote her products, and grow her newsletter list. She needed the site to be easy-to-update so that she could make updates regularly on her own, and she also wanted the site to help her rank in the search engines.
As a coach, Karen specializes in working with individuals who grapple with anxiety, and so it was important that the site not be cluttered or overwhelming. She wanted it to be made clear from the website design itself that she was easy to work with and took a gentle approach with her clients. She also had a photo that her husband (a professional artist) had taken of a butterfly that she wanted incorporated into the design.
It was important …
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By Jessica Albon
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 …
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By Jessica Albon
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 from …
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By Jessica Albon
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.
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