CSS: Override ANY style (even inline styles) with ! important

by Tyler Dockery of Dockery Design.

While creating a new website for ASPE’s IT Division for nationwide training, I ran into a problem with my formatting. In my CSS stylesheet, I began by outlining an over-arching style to command the entire site. I noted it thus:

* {
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
font-family: Arial, Helvetica;
border: 0px;
}

Your Resume: The Hidden Design Piece — part 1

by Tyler Dockery of Dockery Design.

PART 1:  Back To Design Basics: Understand Your Target Audience

You would be surprised how many resumes a design firm receives every month. Some are plain, some are fancy, some come with cover letters, and some are really “over the top”. But one thing remains the same— We don’t know any

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Embed Your Branding in Your CSS

Imagine the situation: your designer is in a life-threatening car crash. Can someone take over his work immediately?

Chances are, NO. There will almost always be a learning curve. But you can help to combat that by adding some simple instructions into the master CSS file that you use.

At Dockery Design, we work with all kinds

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Web Design: Beginning Web Design Books That Work

No one sets out to be a code monkey. We designers usually start with lofty thoughts of building logos all day, with an annual report, ad campaign, or awards banquet to round out the week. But then, reality sets in.

Being a graphic artist simply isn’t enough. You also have to be a web designer. You

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For Your Love to Grow, Let Your Nerd Love Show

Tyler Dockery Suggests: Show your nerd-love

Nothing wrong with a little bit of Nerd Love going on. A specialized response for specialized workers. You are the CSS to my HTML.
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CNN's New Website: Deconstructed

Tyler Dockery Suggests: View the Deconstruction of the new CNN website

On Monday, October 26, CNN.com introduced a new website design, making a number of major changes to their information-heavy layout.

The new design is beautiful, clean, organized and well-structured. It invites the eye to scan and find something interesting with the goal of clicking through to another page.

The

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8 Web Developer Mistakes, and How To Avoid Them

At Dockery Design, our team will often have to work with outside developers, or worse still— pick up a project where a web designer was not able to work with the developer. Web Designers and Developers are two sides of the website and software coins.

The programmer or developer does not need to understand everything about

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Customer Management Software (CMS): A Primer

At Dockery Design, we know that most web designers and developers prefer Building their websites by hand. If  this turns out not to be an option, they will follow up by building websites with open source CMS, because they got a lot of support from online web communities. Rapid development of plugins for these open

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Envisioning Apple.com in 1983

Tyler Dockery Suggests: Envision Apple.com in 1983

Do you know what this is, dear Apple fanboys and haters? From the beige to the menu bar items to the Lisa Office or the iPhone, this 1983 take on Apple.com’s frontpage is pure genius. That’s exactly what this is. (click image for full size).