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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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Whitepapers: Why Bother?

by Tyler Dockery, Creative Lead with Dockery Design.

Whitepaper- what does that term even mean?

In times past, the term E-Book set the internet on fire. Getting an E-Book was something to brag about— you received some materials which you should have bought, but you got them for free. They were large. They were chock full of

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R2D2: Did you see him?

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R2D2. He’s our hero, and what a guy! Not only has he defined the robotic wingman, and the droid on a mission, he has escaped the world of Star Wars completely. As a creation of George Lucas, and a

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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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HATE: How to get people to HATE your blog

by Tyler Dockery, creative lead at Dockery Design

I do a small amount of work with bloggers— helping them to redesign their sites, and punch up their content. One of the minor complaints that I hear rather often is that “people seem to HATE my blog. No matter what tack I take, visitors leave and don’t

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Milksteak: What It Is, and How To Make Milksteak

How To Prepare or How To Make Milk Steak

In an episode of Its Always Sunny in Philedelphia, the character Charlie notes that his favorite dish is “milksteak”. Although no further mention is made of it, another character responds that the “milk is boiling just the way you like it, sir.” So what is Milksteak, and

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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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