“Doodling” Your Homepage

In honor of the 4th of July, our creative team has put together a custom animation for our homepage.  Visit www.thebrickfactory.com to check it out. 

We were inspired to create custom versions of our Brick Factory homepage by the awesome work the Google team does with their Doodles. ...

A Look Under the Hood: Our Mobile Statistics

I’m not breaking any news here when I tell you that mobile is exploding.  Smart phone sales have overtaken sales of PCs.  There are nearly a billion smartphones worldwide.  10% of all web traffic now comes form mobile devices.

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

Our New 404 Page

Earlier this week our partner Lucien Parsons sent us a great TED video  of Renny Gleeson explaining what a great opportunity to communicate 404 pages present.  Watch for yourself.

This quote from the video really resonated with me, and summarized succinctly what we strive for when building web programs for our clients....

Why we custom build things only as a last resort

At the beginning of the year, we scrapped a custom time tracking system we had used for years in favor of a service called Harvest.  To be blunt, our custom system was dated and kind of sucked.  Harvest is much easier to use and has much better reporting tools.  The transition to Harvest has been super smooth,...

Brick Factory Website Gets a Facelift

We quietly launched a new version of our Brick Factory website on Monday.  I wrote a post a month or so ago with all the gory details about the redesign, so I won’t rehash all that here.

My favorite part of the site are the bio pages our design team put together. ...