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RALEIGH - Assemble a group of national Web designers and Internet architects and chances are they'll know Heather Hesketh and her Raleigh-based company, Hesketh.com Inc.
Ironically, neither have had a particularly high profile locally, though that gap started to close in recent months after Red Hat, Inc. chose Hesketh to design the Web framework for its open source think tank, the Red Hat Center.
The recognition gap springs, in part, Hesketh believes, from the nature of the Internet itself, an electronic playground and tool that brings her fiveyear-old company friends and clients from Tel Aviv as easily as it does from Morrisville.
But whatever its quirks, the Web is a place Hesketh loves. "When the Web hit..." is a phrase she sprinkles throughout her conversation seemingly dividing her fife into preand post-Internet periods.
"When the Web hit" she says, "it brought it all together for me."
What Hesketh.com and its staff of nine do is consult with clients, discover their Internet goals and then design the architecture for sometimes elaborate Web sites.
Some examples of their work include the Council for Entrepreneurial Development (CED) site, which is heavy on rapidly changing information; Nerve.com., a site billing itself as "a community of thoughtful hedonists;" and Charlotte-based SportsExpo.com, a start-up shopping mail.
Emma Taylor of Wayne, NJ.-based Nerve.com found out about Hesketh.com by word of mouth.
"They took us through...