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Tyler Dockery Accepted into the IMU

On Wednesday, May 18th, Tyler Dockery— Creative Lead at Dockery Design was formally accepted into the IMU. IMU, the Inbound Marketing University, is an online teaching body that creates educational opportunities for marketers, web designers, and social media experts. IMU graduates move on to create high-powered talks, marketing papers, and educational materials including book— as

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Successful Web Design for Businesses in 6 stages

The Web Site Design and Development Process

There are several steps in the web site design and development process— from gathering initial information, to the creation of your web site, and finally to maintenance to keep your web site up to date and current.

The exact process will vary slightly from designer to designer, but the basics

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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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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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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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10 Tips to Speed Up Your Internet Browsing

The Dockery Design team is currently in control of over 2400 HTML pages, and countless PHP pages. To keep up with demands, our team needs to be constantly moving across the internet— checking content, finding images, and proving that code is running smoothly and unobtrusively.

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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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