About SiDeWays Enterprises
We are a husband and wife team here to provide you with website design, development, hosting and search
engine optimisation (SEO) services. We started this business to allow the flexibility to work from home for
Donna; this is to allow her to balance web development with the needs of a small hobby farm. We are not looking
for a huge profit margin; just enough to help us pay the bills, and this is reflected in our prices.
We are keen to work with small companies and individuals, especially where it allows us to enable them to
live their dreams. We are more than happy to consider a trade of services, as we did with a local piano tuner,
he did not have a website and Donna had recently been gifted a piano which was in need of tuning.
We are keen supporters of local animal rescue, we provided the design and development of the
Cat Rescue Network site, and continue to support them by covering
the ongoing hosting costs. We are also on the board of directors of
Willow’s Paws & Claws Rescue for which we have done the same.
About Donna
I have been designing, developing and maintaining websites for 9 years. Prior to leaving the UK I was the
sole developer on the website for a start-up company that provided DVD’s through the mail. Since emigrating
I have worked both full-time for a large company and as a consultant for a number of smaller companies and
individuals – as you can see from the gallery on our home page.
Through the Open University in the UK I completed an undergraduate Certificate in Web Applications
Development and the Vandalism in Cyberspace course; additionally I passed six postgraduate courses - Software
Engineering; Relational Database Systems; Advanced Database Technology; Distributed Applications and E-Commerce;
User Interface Design and Development & Software Developments for Networked Apps.
After our move to Canada I became a member of the International Webmasters Guild and completed a number of
their courses including - Web Content Writing and Editing; Search Engine Marketing; Design Concepts & Introduction
to Designing Accessible Websites.
I believe in hand-coding in a manner that provides for the customers desires while meeting accessibility and
W3C standards. I am experienced with ASP.NET using VB.NET, ASP, HTML, CSS, VBScript, JavaScript, TSQL, XML, Java,
Visual Basic, ColdFusion, PHP, MySQL and MS SQL.
When I am not in front of a computer I love spending time with my animals, or just walking or cycling in the
countryside. You wont often find me without my camera, and I take pride in being able to provide all my own
pictures for my personal websites. I love to spend time in my garden and my aim is to grow as much of our food
as I can. The learning curve for our farm, both livestock and garden, has been extremely steep, but I am loving
the challenge. I love crafts and having a chance to express my creativity, most recently I am learning to spin.
About Steve
A consummate IT professional with experience from operating to management.
Professional Qualifications
- ABCP – Associate Business Continuity Planner (DRI International Certification)
- Software Management and Audit - FAST (Federation Against Software Theft)
- Certificate in Information Security Management Principles – BCS (British Computer Society)