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Dockery Design Presents at the University of West Georgia

Just finished a whirlwind travel expedition to Carrollton, Georgia, where I presented a set of brochures to the University of West Georgia.

The University of West Georgia has commissioned Dockery Design, a graphic design firm and web design studio located in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle Area of North Carolina to produce a new eCore materials package

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InDesign: Save All Your Files at One Time

by Tyler Dockery of Dockery Design.

Consultant Question: I usually keep 3 windows open in InDesign CS3 at a time when working catalog files. Is there a way I can save them all at once?

If you’re a designer like me, you will often have 3-4 InDesign documents open on your desk at one time (Let’s not even get

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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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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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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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