Doodlekit™ Advanced - Latest Blog Entries

It's New Year - Get Off The Couch And Start Blogging!

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:46:00 -0600

If you own your own small business, you probably have a website. Now days, with social media and the internet at an all time high in usage, you should probably get with the program and start blogging! Blogging (and other B2B tools) is turning into a vital way to increase traffic and SEO to your website. Learn how to do this with your small business website yourself by following a simple laid out plan by one of Doodlekit's social media experts. If after following the plan traffic to your website increases significantly, you may be asked to be profiled in their blog, giving you more SEO exposure!

Warning: Don't Use North American Van Lines

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:25:00 -0500

Recently we moved to Seattle - sort of. My wife, children and I arrived there late last month. Our belongings were to be shipped a few days later by North American Van Lines. What a disaster this turned out to be. Please read my North American Van Lines Review before considering to use them as a mover for your belongings. We are 3 weeks out currently and they cannot find a driver to ship our goods. Worse they appear to not care and are not doing much of anything to remedy the situation.

Doodlekit The Political Campaign Website Builder

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:12:00 -0600

Just pushed out a new ad today advertising Doodlekit as an election website builder. People running for office or just wanting to support a candiate or political party can use out tools to create a good political campaign website.

New Web Page Editor For Doodlekit

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:04:00 -0600

Doodlekit just released a new web page editor for its users to edit their websites with. Check it out their latest blog post about it. There is a slideshow that shows all the screenshots.

Using The Natural Planning Model On You Website

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:11:00 -0600

Do you plan ahead or just jump into a project head first? When it comes to your website it pays to plan and plan right. Explore the Natural Planning Model that we use everyday without knowing and how you can apply that your website. More on the Doodlekit Blog.

Doodlekit ReVisited After 5 Years

Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:41:00 -0600

After reorganizing Doodlekit files of the last 5 years, I came across a great collection of old screenshots. It was interesting to see how far we have come with Doodlekit. Not to just the tool itself, but also to our website design and logo. I'm sure there will be many more changes to come, but for now, I thought I would share some pics of the past. Check out this snapshot of the last 5 years: Doodlekit Evolution - A Trip Down Memory Lane.

New Image Management Tools

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:46:00 -0600

Of all the new features in Doodlekit, the new image management tools are some of the most advanced upgrades.

We added a brand new Backend Image Library Manager that lets you see all of the images on your website in one location. In additions we've added advanced image editing capabilities such as Image Cropping, Rotation, Converting to Black and White and Thumbnail Cropping.

Click here to read a more in-depth look at these new features.

Social Media - Isn't It About Time To Get Your Business Started?

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 13:04:00 -0600

The internet is dynamic. The only thing you can bank on for sure is that it will always be changing. The latest wave to come from the internet is Social Media. It's a fast growing one - one just starting to swell up.

If you own a small company or business that is public facing, you have to get on Twitter & Facebook. If you want name brand recognition, you need to acknowledge the power of Social Media. That power is not something gained by simply racking up thousands of followers and friends. Contrary to what you might think, that is not the gauge by which you should measure your Social Media success.

With hundreds of applications available to spam invites & follows, racking up a large following is quite easy. But what good does it do you to have thousands of followers when nobody is listening?

Read about how you can use Social Media appropriately as a tool for yourself and your company.

School Teacher Websites Can Be Built With Doodlekit

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:53:00 -0500

Doodlekit pushed an ad today focused on teacher resource websites and being able to build classroom websites for teacher's students.

Solve Your Needs And Then Sell Your Solution

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:52:00 -0500

Sometimes the solution or product you’re looking for just doesn’t exist. Perfect! Your need might be something other’s might need. If you have a good idea, don’t throw it away. The Best Ideas Come From Necessity is a great blog post that might get you thinking about turning your idea into a business.

Heathbits & The Garbage Burrito Try Out New Twitter Addon...

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:16:00 -0500

Today we rolled out a new Doodlekit Addon that allows your website to have a 'Tweet' page that displays all your tweets! Right now it is only available to Ben and I for testing. Check out both pages:

Heathbit Tweets

Garbage Burrito Tweets

Giving Your Product Away For Free Equals More Paying Customers

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:13:00 -0500

Learn how “free” can become a segue into paid products and services. Want to Sell Your Product? Give it Away for Free is a great article about how providing your product or service for free can build up paying customers and marketing.

Personalizing Your Customer Care

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:12:00 -0500

Trying to stand out in a world filled with corporate giants may seem impossible... if your doing standard media advertising. Growing your Business by Getting Personal explains how to stand out as a small business or startup.

New Doodlekit Profile: Greyhound Adoptions of Florida

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:26:00 -0500

Dave McGurgan with the Greyhound Adoptions of Florida gets his website profiled on Doodlekit.

Start networking Your Idea NOW!

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 11:20:00 -0500

Got a cool idea for a startup or small business? Haven't really had time to really look into it yet? Well, if you feel pretty confident about your idea, you need to start networking RIGHT NOW then. Have an Idea? Get it out there now! is a blog post about how you need to start creating your network as soon as possible for any idea you think you might try to implement someday. Start gathering emails, building up friends on Twitter and Facebook, networking with peeps on LinkedIn, etc.

Doodlekit Merges User Accounts

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:16:00 -0500

Yesterday Doodlekit pushed out it's new billing system that merged multiple accounts by the same users into one account. This new system allows users to create multiple websites using one or more credit cards to pay for them. All websites are now managed through a single user interface.

Posterous link to Doodlekit Merges User Accounts.

Competition Scaring You?

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:13:00 -0500

Don't let a little competition stop you. A great blog post about what understanding your market and your competitors. There's always room for one more...

Posterous Link

Why Refactor Your Code?

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:52:00 -0500

A new post about code refactoring. Posted link availabe on Doodlekit Posterous too.

New Doodlekit Affiliate Website Builder Promotion Website

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:34:00 -0500

Today, Doodlekit release a new affiliate website builder promotional website. This website targets people who want to do affiliate website development but do not know how to code. Here is the Doodlekit Posterous link for it. Take a look and let us know what you think!

Major New Release For Doodlekit Coming Soon

Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:19:00 -0500

Anyone that’s been working with or following our Doodlekit Online Website Builder Tool has probably noticed that the waters have been pretty calm lately. Not much is going on – on the surface. Below the surface, however, we have been working around the clock on a major new release. We are very, very, very excited about it. There are going to be some major new features added to Doodlekit. We hope to release this newer version sometime around the end of September 2007. Below is a list of some of the more major upgrades that we will be implementing:

Doodlekit will be FREE!
Yep, we will be releasing a free version of Doodlekit for all to use, indefinitely. No more 30 day trials. The free version will have the following:
- Blog
- Photo Albums (up to a 100 photos max at any one time) with Slide Shows.
- The ability to add up to 5 extra pages/sub pages in addition to the photo album pages, blog, and contact form.
- Full access to all our layouts, color schemes, and background images.
- Access to Stock Photos for headers and content.
- Access to the CSS Override Editor for advanced users who know how to code CSS. Advanced users will be able to upload their own design images and write the code to design their own websites.
- Free websites will be sub-domains of www.doodlekit.com.
Doodlekit will have a Shopping Cart!
Doodlekit will offer an advanced plan that will allow you to create your own shopping cart via a PayPal account that you have created.
All Doodlekit websites will be W3C Strict XHTML & CSS compliant!
While most Doodlekit users won’t care much about this, web developers/designers will understand the significance of this and appreciate it (especially those who will use our CSS Override Editor).
Doodlekit will have a New & Improved Page Editor!
The new doodlekit page editor will be more reliable and easier to use than the older editor. It will allow you to create one, two, and three column layouts as well as add images directly to your web pages from you computer, Doodlekit Photo albums, or other websites.
Stock Photo/Image Repository.
We have added a searchable library of Stock images to use in your website headers and content. We will be starting with over 2000 images and adding more every day! You will be able to swap out images in your content & headers as often as you like.
Doodlekit will work with 94.1% of all browsers world wide.
Doodlekit websites will function properly with the following browsers: IE 6.0+, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, and Safari 3.0+.

Let us know if you have any questions or comments. We look forward to hearing from you!