ThirdSide Inc.

Web Design & Graphic Design - Champaign, IL / Portland, OR

Web Development

Will Changes to Net Neutrality Harm Small Business?

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Being the owner of a small business comes with a unique set of challenges. Since our primary clients are mostly small business owners—and since ThirdSide is a small business—I’ve been privileged to compare notes with my peers on the issues we all face on a day-to-day basis. One of the more recent hot-button issues is […]

Open Source vs Proprietary CMS

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Reading Time: 4 minutes Recently we’ve been hearing from our clients about companies like Hibu and other web developers offering websites built on proprietary content management systems (CMSs). We’ve received quite a few questions about which CMS is best and why we build on WordPress. This post will help explain some of those differences. What is a CMS? CMS […]

Lor-um What, Now?

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Reading Time: 4 minutes It’s inevitable. There will come a time in a design project where you’ll need text to style. Sometimes you have some, and sometimes you don’t. Do you jump out of your creative groove and try to write about your client and whatever they’re doing right that very minute? Heck no! That’s what lorem ipsum text […]

A Simple Guide for Awesome Website Banner Photography

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Reading Time: 5 minutes Finding the right photo for a website banner can be a tricky process. The average website banner is around 4 times as wide as it is tall, or 4:1. The picture ratio for most cameras is 4:3. This means that only about ⅓ of the photograph will be visible when it’s used for the banner […]

Spotlight: Willard Airport

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Reading Time: 2 minutes Part of welcoming newcomers to a community includes inviting tools for getting there. Indeed, one of the first things you see when you walk into the airport is an enormous “Welcome” sign! So when we began a new website design for Willard Airport, we felt like we were not only trying to capture the essence […]