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.

10 Signs You Need to Create a New Website

It’s important to project the best image of your business, and your website is no exception to this rule. The web is likely the first place your customers and potential customers are going to look to learn about your business. Check out this list to see if it's time for a redesign.

Digital Marketing Trends

The industry of digital marketing is always advancing, making it highly challenging to keep up with digital marketing trends. With the advantage of youth and optimism on my side, I take a stab at labeling some current trends, as well as predict where I think this industry is going.

Making a Case for Integrated Digital Marketing Strategies

One small digital marketing team may be better than an army of specialists.

We Built A Responsive Web Design Framework, But It's Not For Sale.

Licensing Leverage, our responsive web developer framework and CMS, is tempting. We've considered it for over a year, and even planned pricing models and started writing full documentation. However, we decided that the product is more valuable to us and our clients if it stays in house. We built it for us, and it's staying that way for now.

A Guide to Leverage's Top jQuery Plugins: Make Images Responsive, Hide Elements With Classes, and Animate Based on the ScrollTop Property

We’ve open-sourced several of Leverage’s top jQuery plugins that help us make our sites more responsive, interactive and easier to create.

Why Big Brands Should Use a Boutique Marketing Agency

Are you a big brand weighing the value of working with a smaller agency? Learn how the boutique agency can help you reach your goals, reenergize your brand and do it all while maximizing your effort and budget.

How to Create a jQuery Plugin

There comes a time for every developer when the idea of another jQuery plug-in becomes momentarily unbearable. Searching and scouring the edges of the Internet for a plug-in that will fit your needs rots. Using a jQuery plug-in seems like a good idea, until you realize it can’t do everything you need it to. So I wrote my own jQuery plug-in.

How To Approach Mobile Website Design

Would you be worried if 30% of your customers walked in and then directly out of your store? 30% or so of all web traffic nowadays is mobile. Are you worried now? If your website isn’t optimized for mobile visitors, it might be time to re-evaluate.

"SEO or SEM?" The Wrong Question

With the advancement in online marketing opportunities, it can be a challenge for a marketing director to decide what initiatives to pursue. When the question of "SEO or SEM?" arises, it is important to transition the question to a statement and learn how to balance the two, rather than deciding between them.

2013 Web Design Trends

Now that we are more than halfway through 2013, let's examine some of the popular web design trends that have emerged. In this article we will discuss some overarching concepts as well as some specific web design techniques.

Infographic of the Day: What's the Fastest Web Browser?

There are a ton of browser options out there, and for the amount of time we all spend on the Internet, you don’t want to waste any more time waiting for pages to load. To help shed a little light on the benefits and drawbacks of what’s available, I’ve created an infographic detailing the features of various browsers.

Trends in Web Design: Flat Design is Just Efficient Design

Flat design is a recently popular term and a design style that is often described as the opposite of skeuomorphic design.