Last April I noticed Fox displaying hashtags on the screen of some its shows to promote tweeting. Since then, this practice has continued, and I have noticed similar instances on other networks and shows.
Up until now, from what I’ve seen, Fox has mainly displayed the show’s name as the hashtag (#Glee or #Fringe,...
Continue ReadingLast Friday was a big day for the Brick Factory. To celebrate the start of the NCAA basketball tournament, we ordered barbeque from Hill Country and watched some of the games in our conference room. More importantly, our super talented designer Freddy Trejo (pictured above) delivered an amazing piece of Brick Factory-inspired artwork that he has been working on the last few months. ...
Continue ReadingA splash page is an interim page on a site that asks a visitor to perform an action, such as making a donation or signing up for an email list, before visiting the page they intended. While splash pages can be annoying to users, they work. Given their effectiveness, we end up building splash pages for clients quite frequently in the CMS we specialize in,...
Continue ReadingWhen we officially launched the Brick Factory on October 1, 2011 we quickly put together a four page website + blog in the days leading up to the announcement. Due to time constraints, the placeholder site, which is still up, is dead simple. The homepage features our logo,...
Continue ReadingBy now you have undoubtedly heard about the launch of the new Facebook pages. Facebook has done a great job of communicating the key changes, as have many others, so I won’t cover that same ground here.
But I did want to write something about the change I find the most interesting: ...
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