The Cascade Blog

Google Warns Non-Mobile-Friendly Sites

It's time to get friendly!            Mobile-friendly, that is.             Recently Google has been notifying non-mobile-friendly sites where "critical mobile usability errors" have been...

The Train's Newest Passenger: Scott 2.0

cascade welcomes aboard Scott 2.0!  Just before the new year, the train made a stop to send off Scott Lansing, and to welcome aboard Scott Peerman. In order to gain a little more insight on Scott 2.0 (also known as S2P2), we recently asked him 10 prying...

Year in Review

Before welcoming the new year with open arms, we wanted to take a look back and reflect on an amazing 2014. It was a year full of everything "new". New partners. New clients. New team members. As well as new successes and challenges. We can’t thank our...

4 Insights from 2014 Black Friday and Cyber Monday

We hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! We just came out of our tryptophan coma to put together a few insights from sources reporting on 2014's Black Friday and Cyber Monday that we thought you may find interesting: 1) CNN reported...

2014 Small Business and Innovation Awards

On November 12, we picked up some nice, new hardware (pictured to the right). The Portland Business Journal selected cascade web//development as a Small Business of the Year award honoree in the 1-10 Employee Size Category. “The Small Business of the Year...

Friends of Trees Ninkasi Beer Tasting!

On Friday afternoon we were able to get our hands on a bottle of Friends of Trees Pale Ale, a new batch of Ninkasi Brewing Company’s Rare and Delicious series, for a tasting here on the train (a.k.a., the office) - and let me tell you, what a...

3 Tips for Amplifying Content Using Google Analytics

Hey you! We want to fill you in on a pretty sweet tool we use to help assess page traffic trends for our clients -- okay, we’re nerds, but it is helpful: the Google Analytics Navigation Summary. The Navigation Summary is an effective tool for assessing...

Things to Know About the Bash Bug

While it's not quite the Heartbleed Bug, the Bash Bug is a thing that wouldn't hurt to know about. It's actually pretty bad, but cascade web//development's servers are patched up as of yesterday afternoon -- are yours? Below are some quick,...