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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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Cheater Caught. Revealed in Public

Tyler Dockery Suggests: I think you got what you deserved.

Green Concepts For Your Business

At Dockery Design, we know that anything to do with saving energy, sustaining the environment, or solutions to the global warming problem will attract the thoughts and minds of the Millenial Genration. During a down economy, green concepts like these can get you extra attention with investors, as long as basic business principles are not

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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).

Free Twitter Background Tools

Tyler Dockery Suggests: twitpaper

Twitpaper
An online community where hundreds of Twitter layouts & backgrounds can be downloaded FREE. Twitpaper is a decorative way to show off your personality to friends, family, fans, and all that follow on Twitter. Best of all, our services are absolutely free! So be creative, have fun, and enjoy everything

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13 Tips for Effective Communication with Clients

A Personal Note From Tyler Dockery:

While this article is written from the point of view of a web designer, we at Dockery Design take this materials straight to heart. Our project managers follow this process as well, and so can any businessman or businesswoman, so don’t feel put off by the design bent of this

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Design Trends for 2009

Design in general is always evolving and changing. From the dull days of boring, spotty websites to the age of color and excitement— web design evolves quickly in a few short years. There’s no doubt that design trends, styles and techniques are changing rapidly, and that as designers, it’s our responsibility at Dockery Design to

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Dockery Design is Always Sweating The Details

Working with other Designers and small businesses in the North Carolina, Dockery Design tends to find that people really seem to be surprised when they receive good service from a graphic or web designer. It seems rather strange really. You want a satisfied customer, so you show up on time, with multiple options to choose

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