How the Rise of Smart Phones and Tablets Is Impacting Our Clients

With the proliferation of smart phones and tablets over the last few years, the hype about the mobile web has gotten pretty deafening.  While overall industry trends are important, at the Brick Factory we are more interested in understanding how the rise of the mobile web is impacting our own world of non-profits,...

Five Great Campaign Websites from the 2014 Election Cycle

Having worked in digital politics in a previous life, I observe elections these days with mixed feelings from a safe distance.

Working for political campaigns is hard, stressful and often demoralizing.  The long hours rewarded with below market pay.  But the highs are pretty high.  When you are working on a political campaign it is your whole life for a time. ...

Complete Brick Factory Card Set

This Summer we’ve been posting mock baseball cards of our employees on our Facebook page.  We’ve done this partly as a way to introduce our awesome staff to folks, and partly to amuse ourselves.  You can check out the complete set below.  Enjoy, and follow us on Facebook for more weird stuff like this....

How to keep your website review process from going off the rails

A few weeks ago I wrote a somewhat frivolous post that used 11 animated gifs to explain what it is like to build a website for a client.  I wanted to loop back and write a bit more substantively about the review phase of a project (represented in gif 9),...

The Web Development Process Explained in 11 Animated Gifs

Building websites is hard work. And a lot of it isn’t that much fun.

To help explain the process, we’ve put together this tongue and cheek post that explains how we typically feel during the various stages of a web development process.  Since we build sites for clients,...