Top 10 Best Designed College Websites: The Sequel

We did a post on the best designed college websites a couple years ago. Since the digital world is constantly evolving and it seems trends become outdated overnight, we thought it would be worthwhile to take a fresh look and see what has changed in the last few years.

Interestingly enough,...

Three Easy Steps: A Quick Look at Social Media Fundamentals

Recently I had the pleasure of sitting on a ‘Fail Fair’ panel about social media. My time was fairly limited so I decided to keep my presentation short and sweet – focusing on the three most essential fundamentals of social media:

1. Don’t break guitars
2. Don’t eat at McDonalds
3. Don’t say dumb things

Admittedly,...

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....

Drupal and WordPress aren’t Free

For the past few years here at The Brick Factory, we’ve fully embraced using open source content management systems (CMS) – particularly Drupal and WordPress.  Why?  Put simply: They work.  By using them we don’t have to start from scratch on building a web site and can focus on fine tuning the design and functionality of the site 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,...