Reading Time: 3 minutes This past week, Facebook held its annual F8 Developers Conference in San Jose, California. While social media is generally seen as a way to interact with friends and family, this year’s F8 focused heavily on helping businesses better engage their audiences through better connectivity. Some emerging tools reminded me of things other platforms are doing […]
Web Development
Does Your Business Really Need a Blog?
Reading Time: 2 minutes We meet a lot of different people in our line of work, who run a variety of businesses and organizations. But one question almost all of them have asked us is: “Do we really need a blog?” In my opinion, yes. Having a blog provides a lot of benefits for your business. In fact, if […]
Spotlight: Candid Carpet
Reading Time: 2 minutes With the spring cleaning season underway, local carpet cleaners Candid Carpet came to us for a website refresher. Like many of our clients, they knew it was time for an update, and wanted a clean, modern look for their business. After chatting with them for a bit, we introduced them to our newest project: Front […]
What ThirdSide is Doing to Protect Your Privacy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Even if you’re not a “news” person, you have probably been made aware of the recent decision in Congress to allow internet service providers (ISPs) to snoop your online life. In effect, your privacy is now up for sale. Every action or activity you perform on the internet is now freely accessible for use by […]
Why Do You Have a Website?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Have you ever asked yourself the question, “Why do I have a website?” Have you ever really thought about the answers? Is there even more than one answer? (Probably.) For us here at ThirdSide, the main answer is pretty obvious: we build websites, so we kind of need one of our own. Duh. It’s like, […]
Service, or Scam?
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you have your own website, chances are you’ve received something in the mail reminding you to renew your domain name before it expires. People generally react to these notices in one of the following ways: “Is this actually something I have to worry about?” “I already paid for my web hosting, so I’m good. […]