Brix CMS
Brix is our amazing, easy-to-use, cloud-based platform we built ourselves so that we can create your websites and content management system exactly the way you need them. Brix accelerates our ability to build incredibly engaging websites while providing you with an invaluable business tool that’s easy-to-use, endlessly adaptable and scalable based on your specific business needs.
Brix is fully customizable
This gives us the flexibility to tailor it to your specific needs. That means we can solve any problem, no matter how challenging, without using off-the-shelf fixes. So we adapt our platform to your needs, rather than bending your needs to work with our platform.
Brix is easily extended
You can be confident that what we develop now can be added to and updated in the future, which means long-term savings for you.
Why choose Brix?
Consistency
Brix ensures a consistent look and feel across all elements of a website, which enhances user experience and brand recognition.
Efficiency
It streamlines the design and development process by providing reusable components and guidelines, saving time, money and effort.
Scalability
Brix is scalable, making it easier to expand a website or create new digital products with a cohesive design.
Collaboration
Brix makes collaboration among designers, developers, and stakeholders easy by establishing a common foundation.
Maintenance
Updates and changes are easier to implement across the entire site, reducing the risk of inconsistencies or errors.
Accessibility
Brix adheres to accessibility guidelines, ensuring that websites are more inclusive and compliant with accessibility standards.
Faster Development
Building websites using predefined components and styles speeds up development and reduces the need for custom coding.
Brand Identity
The design system for Brix maintains and reinforces a consistent brand identity, which is crucial for market trust and recognition.
SEO
Brix follows SEO best practices to optimize website structure and content, boosting visibility and organic search engine rankings.
Build amazing pages with Story Blocks
Story Blocks are a modular method of managing content on your website pages. Each Block type is designed to make the most of the content you already have.
They are crafted so you can change, modify and reorder blocks to create an awesome, bespoke layout for each page of your site - all very simply from your Brix CMS. In fact, the site you're on right now is built entirely with Brix CMS and Story Blocks! If you’d like to see more of the options we've created for Story Blocks, please visit our demo site.
Holistic UI + UX
Story blocks are designed as part of a holistic design system; so all of the options of Story Blocks are available for you when you need them.
Core Block types
At a foundational level we group Story Blocks into 7 main types: Text, Image, Video, Posts, List, Navigation and Code. We can also add custom blocks for you based on your specific requirements.
Image options
Images can be displayed in galleries, carousels, grids, aligned left or right - and you can control the way the images display, like size and aspect ratio, in Advanced settings.
Advanced settings
Story blocks have advanced settings that level-up your ability to modify the aspect ratio of your images, the number of images in a carousel, custom background options, text alignment and more.
Headers
Easily change the style and color of any Story Block header using predefined styles and colors from your design system. Using predefined sizes makes site-wide changes down the road super efficient.
Endless Possibilities
The 7 core Story Block types, along with dozens of Advanced Setting combinations, provide thousands of unique layouts you can use, branded and ready to go, right away as you need.
Staging
Visibility options for Public if you’re ready for the world to see it, Staging if you’re working on the content and doing internal review, and Hidden for content that you don’t want to show, or isn’t quite ready for prime time.
Responsive
As an integral part of our holistic design, each Story Block is crafted to optimize content engagement for both mobile and desktop experiences while maintaining feature parity at all sizes.
Non-destructible
Story Blocks are designed using a common foundation across all 7 types so you can easily switch between types of Blocks without concern that you may lose the content you’ve already added.
Flexible
You can drag-and-drop reorder the Story Blocks on any page, optimizing the user experience. Choose to show newer content or change the display hierarchy based on analytics and consumer insights.
Jumpstart
The goal is to get your content live, so we make it as easy as we can for you. Copy an existing Story Block from anywhere on your site to use it as-is or as a template for a new Block design or layout.
Experimentation
Story Blocks are non-destructible, so we encourage you to move them around, change the type of Block and tinker with some of the advanced settings. Your content is safe, so play around!
Scheduling
You can easily set Story Blocks to turn on and off at specific, scheduled times enabling you to dynamically update any page of your site with content that goes live when you’re ready.
Analytics
Data is power! Learn how your users are experiencing the content on your website. We track views and clicks for every Story Block which is reported directly to Google Analytics for you.
Advanced Integrations
Content API
Brix content is available via API - giving you all of the best of Brix CMS for any front-end application, from native and OTT apps to other websites built with frameworks like React and Angular.
Embed Code
Story Blocks embed codes can be generated to use the power of Brix content management and dynamic layouts to syndicate your content to other websites.
The best thing about Brix and Story Blocks is they provide the power to create and produce engaging and exciting content with the confidence that each block and page of your site will look amazing on all screens.