Reading Time: 2 minutes As part of the Champaign-Urbana community, we like to take the opportunity to give back. Over the years, we have provided our graphic design and web design services for little to no cost for organizations whose missions we support. Last December, we asked for your input in helping connect us with an organization we could […]
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Spotlight: AJ’s Station
Reading Time: 2 minutes We often compare websites to houses.The layout of a website, the underlying structure of the server and software, and the look and feel of the visual elements all lend themselves very well to that analogy. But when you talk about ongoing maintenance, your website is actually more like a vehicle. It needs to be refueled […]
Project Spotlight: Designing for Growth
Reading Time: 2 minutes Prior to joining ThirdSide two years ago, my career was in structural engineering and construction management. During that time I was involved with several projects where the Clients predicted that they would outgrow their new building in just a few years, so we incorporated that possibility into the design. Sometimes the structure would need to […]
Spotlight: The Chapel of Saint John the Divine
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are many different kinds of websites out there. Some are simple, some are fancy; some give information, some sell products. You get the idea. While many internet aficionados extol the virtues of building a “community” around your brand or your products or your story, every once in a while we get a project where […]
Branding Spotlight: McKinley Foundation
Reading Time: 3 minutes It isn’t everyday that I am able to work with clients that I have a previous connection to, but lately it’s been happening more than I expected. When I was in high school, I played drums in a band with my friends. Nearly every weekend I would make my way to the basement of the […]
Don’t Throw Out the Pens and Paper Just Yet
Reading Time: 3 minutes As I mentioned in a previous post, I am a more-than-avid fan of technology and productivity. I was an early adopter of the digital organizer and later the smartphone. (Remember the Palm Treo? Yeah, I had one.) I was writing macros and developing mini databases back in the 1990’s when I first discovered Microsoft Excel […]
