Reading Time: 2 minutes Thanksgiving has been a tradition in the United States since the Civil War when Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the fourth Thursday in November a national holiday for the purpose of giving thanks. ThirdSide Thursday always falls on…well…a Thursday. Because of this, once every 52 weeks or so, we’re blogging on Thanksgiving. This happy coincidence allows us […]
Creating SEO Content That Gets Rankings
Reading Time: 5 minutes Congratulations! You’ve made the decision to take your business to the web. Maybe you’ve used a DIY website builder, or maybe you’ve hired a professional web developer like ThirdSide. Whichever path you’ve chosen, good SEO content should be the one thing you focus on if you want your site to rank well with search engines. […]
Built for Speed
Reading Time: 3 minutes This past Sunday I visited an exhibit at the Portland Art Museum called The Shape of Speed. It was a wonderful exhibition of cars and motorcycles designed and built between 1930 and 1942. The exhibit focused on streamlining and how it was used in automotive design to evoke a feeling of speed. While many of […]
The Foo Fighters Logo: Showing What a Malleable Logo Design Can Do
Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m a Foo Fighters fan. A couple of weeks ago, I had the privilege of seeing them live (my second time doing so) at Wrigley Field in Chicago. As a forty-something, they were the rock band of my younger years. Dave Grohl even shouted from the stage that the true fans are the guys with […]
Nine Simple Ways to Tell If You Have an Outdated Website
Reading Time: 5 minutes You probably know an outdated website when you see it. What is the first thing that comes to mind if you come across one? Does it make you wonder if the business is reliable? Do you wonder if the company represented is still in business? We frequently see websites that look like they were built […]
Is that website really SSL secure?
Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past year or so, the push toward SSL secure websites has been a huge focus in the web development world. The internet as a whole has been moving to a more secure place. The reasons for this are many and everybody should be rejoicing about it. Nobody likes to think about their information […]