Just do it: DIYnetwork.com director Phillip Williams gives his home improvement Website an extreme makeover.(BLACK DIGERATI)

It's not often that employees make a significant impact on a company's success during their first year on the job, but that's exactly what Phillip S. Williams did.

As director of Knoxville, Tennessee-based DIYnetwork.com, the online arm of Scripps Networks' DIY Network, 34-year-old Williams has racked up impressive results for the firm. Highlights include the first-ever quarter of consecutive months averaging more than 2 million unique Website visitors; two best months ever: one in March 2005, when the site posted 42.9 million page views, and one in June 2005, when the site received 3.2 million unique visitors; and a 50% increase in packaged content, which are …