Merit Lee, founder and creative director of Designs with Merit, attended the New School of Social Research for creative writing in New York City. She became co-founder and principal writer for the company Rent-A-Roast, where she spent five years writing and performing custom roasts for corporations like AT&T, IBM, Coopers and Lybrand, and the Chicago Board of Trade.

She relocated to San Francisco, California in 1991. While pursuing a degree in English at the College of Marin, she continued her writing career. Her work appeared in local newspapers and national magazines. Merit received her degree in Internet Technology & Design from San Francisco State University and founded Designs with Merit in 1996. Merit blends her background as a writer and her talent as a designer to create web sites that are not only visually pleasing, but have an eye on marketing.

10 years to the day of establishing Designs with Merit, she launched a new software application: www.GoogleMapBuilder.com It's a collaboration between Designs with Merit and a leading technology firm to Create Dynamic Searchable, Dragable, Street and Satellite Maps for any web site.

With over twelve years e-commerce experience, DWM has evolved as the premier resource for any size or type of online business.

Merit has developed a team that covers website design, maintenance, custom programming, Search Engine Optimization, and content development and marketing. We are a full service web site development company with unsurpassed customer service and the personal touch of someone to talk to for our your web site needs.