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The Crux of Development

Sideways8 often gets random requests for quotes on new projects. We love the fact that projects come our way, but often we have to turn them down.  The reason we have to turn them down is because people don’t understand the triangle of development. Our brand and our name is on the line when we…

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8 Reasons to Use WordPress

1) Search Engine Optimized (SEO) If Google employees say it is good for SEO, then you should probably take that to heart. It is a fantastic piece of software, makes your blog easily crawlable by search engines, solves some 80-90% of mechanics of SEO and is the first big step anyone can take towards creating…

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Change which type of files you can upload in WordPress

We recently had a client that needed to be able to upload a “vCard” and they were not able to do so. That is because WP limits what type of files can be uploaded. By default you can only upload media to the “Media Library”, which makes perfect sense, right? But what if we need…

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How to Fire The Web Guy

Time and time again small businesses are horribly frustrated with their web guy/team and fire them. Often times they jump the gun without knowing how much control that person may have on their business. I’m going to outline a few preventative steps your business should take to ensure that you won’t be caught with your…

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WordPress, Google, SEO

I found a pretty cool article saying that Google’s Matt Cutts (great name BTW, it’s a complete sentence, kind of like Brittney Spears) thinks WordPress is the best SEO platform.  From the article: It is a fantastic piece of software, makes your blog easily crawlable by search engines, solves some 80-90% of mechanics of SEO…

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Our Process of a Custom Web Design

In our industry there are many ways to grow your company. We have grown without any paid advertising.  90% of our business comes from word of mouth.  That means we treat our clients well and our end product makes them pretty  happy. We know that one of the things that makes our clients happy is…