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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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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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Customer Management Software (CMS): A Primer

At Dockery Design, we know that most web designers and developers prefer Building their websites by hand. If  this turns out not to be an option, they will follow up by building websites with open source CMS, because they got a lot of support from online web communities. Rapid development of plugins for these open

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Add Retweet Counters to Your Website

Tyler Dockery used to cringe when he suggested that his new clients should consider the mantra “Eat Twittter, Sleep Twitter! and Now Blog and share now on Twitter”. Find those words lame? Do you know that several larger design firms and business networking sites have 40% 0r more of their traffic coming from Twitter alone! So

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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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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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