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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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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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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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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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Turn Your Newsletter Subscribers into Clients

Having an Ezine or Newsletter is one of the easiest ways to turn your site visitors into clients. With a proper and well-made Ezine or Newsletter subscription process, the odds of creating clients from your web traffic will increase dramatically.

Even when there is an abundance of information, visitors may not purchase the service or product

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Tyler Dockery Chosen as Acclaimed Speaker

In April 2009, Tyler Dockery was requested and subsequently chosen as industry speaker to BNI.

On July 3rd, 2009, Tyler Dockery addressed Business Networking International (BNI) with his smash program: What Your Website Should Be Doing For You. For Business Networking International, Tyler Dockery— Creative Lead at Dockery Design— covered discussion points related to small and large

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