10 popular websites that look awful in Internet Explorer 7

If you ask a web developer what they think of Internet Explorer they will probably tell you how awful it is in very colorful language.  If you ask them specifically about Internet Explorer 7 they will either burst into tears or punch you in the face.  You see, over the last four years that web developer is likely to have wasted hundreds of hours implementing hacks to make theirs sites work in IE7,...

1,000 programmers can’t fix healthcare.gov in a month

Like many folks in the DC web development community, I’ve been reading with interest the horror stories about the launch of healthcare.gov.  Just yesterday new revelations came out that showed just how complicated the site truly is and just how deep the problems are. 

As a web developer,...

Motorcycle Photos and the Art of Branding

We are in the process of redesigning our Brick Factory website.  It has been slow going.  Client work competes for resources and we tend to over think everything when doing work for ourselves.  But we are getting there, and expect to launch our new site before the end of the year....

Screen size diversity and the case for responsive design

The increasing ubiquity of smartphones and tablets has lead to exponential grown in the percentage of visitors accessing the web from mobile devices over the last few years.  In a study of the mobile statistics of Brick Factory clients we found that site visits from tablets and smartphones has doubled every year the last three years. ...

New Brick Factory Study: 20% of web traffic now comes from mobile devices

There  has been a lot of hype about the rise of web browsing from smartphones and tablets over the last few years.  The research firm IDC projects that by 2015 more people will access the Internet from mobile devices than from desktops and laptops.

This is all important stuff for us to follow. ...