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When dealing with clients new and old, in web design, our client, and the people who visit their websites, can usually fall into one of two categories: 1) those who…

In our post completion SEO guide, and whenever people ask us how to improve their web presence, one of the things we recommend is adding a website to quality directories….

We’ve been benchmarking Amazon EC2 server instances for some highly complicated PHP applications over the past week. During this time, we’ve discovered that XCache is perhaps the best opcode caching…

We often install WordPress as a CMS for businesses at Silicon Dales, because we know how important it is for companies and small firms to communicate with their customers and…

We like to use the Silicon Dales blog to answer questions we get asked, in a public place, so that others, who are asking the same questions (and typing them…

The mobile web is here, and it doesn’t look like it is going anywhere fast, now, does it?! So you probably want to make your company website look good on…

For business, time is money, so any time saved can equal money in the bank. We know this, at Silicon Dales, so we build websites that work, quickly. We also…

This is a question we are asked by people on a regular basis: “Why is my website slow?” The answer provided here, since 2012, is generally speaking in a WordPress…

A lot of businesses are now using video as a means of communicating with clients and customers. We, at Silicon Dales, fully advocate this. It is a great way to…

Most people who come to us with a business looking for a website want to know how to get their site into those Google Maps of the area, complete with…

A number of people have asked us this question over the years, particularly since we have placed a couple of really popular websites into the highly popular news search engine…

This is a post for those sysadmins out there who run into problems running servers with a LAMP setup. This issue will crop up occasionally in AWS Linux, on EC2…