Navigating Social Advertising

12 years ago, Friendster debuted.
Since then, the number of social networks has exploded.
And in the past few years, so too have the opportunities for social advertising: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Pinterest, Google+.

It can be a little overwhelming.

Americans spend 37 minutes each day on social media,...

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,...

23 Takeaways from Drupalcon Austin

Chris, Mike, Ron, Shane, Teddy and I spent last week at Drupalcon Austin.   We learned a lot, and ate our fair share of Mexican food and BBQ.  Following is a list of our key takeaways from the trip.

(1) Drupal 8 won’t be released until sometime in 2015. ...

Our New Website

We quietly launched our new Brick Factory website last week.  I’m really proud of it.  I think it is a true reflection of who we are and what we do, which is tough to pull off.

When web development firms build sites for themselves, the instinct is to show off. ...