The Brolik blog

We love launching brands, creating entertaining content and designing smart, friendly websites and applications. We also like to discuss our experiences and advice regarding these topics here on the Brolik Blog.

How Improving PageSpeed Can Increase Organic Traffic

How Brolik used Google's PageSpeed Insights, and Lighthouse scores to highlight areas of improvement in the javascript, html, css, images, and resource delivery resulting in an increase of organic traffic by 60%.

How to Create an SEO Friendly Website Structure for Better User Experience

In this article, we’ll examine how to structure your website to reflect the principles of user centered design. We’ll dive into the strategy with page hierarchy, usability guidelines, keyword research for naming pages, as well as some tips and tools to find how your users search for information and how your website structure should reflect that.

AngularJS vs. jQuery

AngularJS and jQuery are very different in the world of javascript tools and it's important to know the different features and and functionality of both. This article will go through a small comparison between the two to help you make a decision on which system is right for you.

Conquer Website Copywriting Using These 3 Templates

It’s not difficult to design and build a beautiful website, but does it clearly define strengths and speak to customer needs? Will the user feel a connection to the brand? This all comes back to how well the website copy is crafted.

A Clean Responsive Web Design Menu Tutorial with CSS, HTML, and jQuery

In this article, we’ll break down Brolik’s new responsive web design menu and explain how the code works line by line.

Responsive Web Design Footer with HTML, CSS, and JQuery Code Examples

Here’s our favorite way to set up a responsive web design footer for use on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. We'll get into the HTML, CSS, and JQuery that it takes to make all of the content and user interface elements stack, reorder, and collapse for optimal use on any size device.

Website Migration Checklist

Websites are the engine of many businesses. A new, more powerful or more efficient website can boost online success for a brand. However, with every opportunity comes risk, and if the website launch isn’t handled properly, it can cause devastating damage.

15 Free Online Web Design and Development Tools

Here’s a list of some of our favorite free online web design tools that we use at Brolik when designing and developing websites. The list includes everything from image optimizers to browser plugins to code validators and everything inbetween.

What is AMP and Should I Care?

Google AMP is new and useful, but it has drawbacks. Businesses should understand what AMP is to know if it’s a smart investment of resources.

#Flawless: Perfectionism and the Web Development Process

Designers strive to make beautiful web experiences. However, should pixel perfection be a priority on the web?

What is Leverage and How Does it Fit Into the CMS Landscape?

The CMS landscape is currently evolving. Here's what's changing, what to look for in your next CMS, and how our CMS, Leverage, fits in with everyone else.

When to use Flexbox

The flexbox box layout is a great technological advancement on the web. In this article, I’ll share some tips on when to (and when not to) use flexbox with some Sass and jQuery for backwards compatibility.