Does your site need a Content Delivery Network?

Everyone wants their website to be popular. You want to get your idea or product out there and the internet is a great way to do that. After a while of things going smoothly you start to get complaints – the website is slow, people in Europe are having a hard time downloading files,...

Fox experimenting with its Fringe Twitter strategy

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,...

March Madness at the Brick Factory

Last 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.  ...

Need to Build a Splash Page in Drupal 7? Get Splashify

A 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,...

The Cobbler’s Son Gets New Shoes

When 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,...