Brix™ is a proprietary platform developed by Baby Steps Design Group, Inc. to provide a custom, cost-effective Web site solution for your business. Brix is a powerful, flexible system that gives you the tools to effectively manage your Web site. It includes a web-based Control Panel with a Content Management System that you can use to edit and update your site, communicate with your project manager, check your email, view tutorials, and track how many people are visiting your site. Brix Web sites are cross-browser and cross-platform compatible and adhere to Web accessibility standards, ensuring that anyone, anywhere can get the most out of your site.

Brix is Custom Built

Our expert development team created Brix drawing on over 8 years of dynamic, database-driven Web site development experience. Security and reliability are our top priorities, so Brix is not open source and does not use open source components.

All Sites include Content Management, Standard!

Managing your own Web site content can save you thousands of dollars a year. We provide all the tools and training to help you get the most value out of your site by managing your content, on your time and to your own high standards.

Platform for Custom Web Applications

Baby Steps specializes in building custom Web applications that integrate seamlessly with Brix and your Web site to help run your business more efficiently. The Brix platform is the bulletproof foundation for all of your custom Web applications.

Brix and BabyServer™, the Perfect Combination

We developed our BabyServer hosting environment to coordinate perfectly with the Brix platform, providing the most reliable and efficient all-inclusive Web site development and hosting package available today.

Dashboard - One-click access to everything you need

When you first log in to your Brix, you’ll find yourself on your Dashboard. From there you can get the latest news and updates from Baby Steps, ask for help using our handy Support Ticket system, and jump directly to the pages of Brix you use most.

  • Submit support tickets
  • Shortcuts to your favorite pages
  • Edit login information
  • News & Messages from your Project Manager

Content Management System – Fast and easy Web site updates

Every Brix Web site includes a Content Management System, so anyone with even a basic knowledge of the Internet can edit the content on your site. Changes are made live and on the fly, so there is no waiting, and no paying for someone else’s time.

  • Web-based system, update your site anytime from anywhere
  • WYSIWYG Page Editor
  • Automatically formats list entries
  • Custom created page content templates
  • Advanced users may edit the content area HTML code directly
  • Updates go live immediately

Custom Web Applications – All your business tools, together at last

Brix is the home of each and every one of your Baby Steps custom Web applications. When your business grows and your needs change, we can seamlessly integrate new applications into Brix and even set special access permissions for your staff. Some of our more popular applications are:

  • Email Campaign Manager
  • Online Store Tools
  • Chat Live
  • Poll & Sweepstakes Managers

Site Properties – Settings and preferences for your Web site

We’ve thought of everything, use your site properties section to edit copyright information, headers and footers, and even the content displayed when a visitor tries to view a page that doesn’t exist.

  • Copyright information
  • Edit Header & Footer
  • Site META Tags – Title, Description, Keywords
  • Activate/Deactivate Splash Page
  • Set “Page Not Found” Message
  • Site Map Controls
  • Password-protected page Controls

Administration Tools

Permission-based access for your whole team Manage and track all of your site administrators from one place. You can even set specific permissions on a site section or application basis so different staff can manage different areas of the site independently.

  • Grant Control Panel access to your staff
  • Set permission levels
  • Control access to individual applications or site sections
  • Access Log records time in system and IP address

RSS Feeds – Syndicate updated site content to all of your fans

Savvy Web users use RSS feeds to stay up to date on the latest news from their favorite Web sites. Turn any list into an RSS feed to automatically notify RSS subscribers whenever something changes, bringing them back to the site time and time again.

  • Regular visitors use RSS readers to check for new content
  • Selected lists automatically become RSS feeds
  • RSS your News List, Upcoming Events, Portfolio, or any other list

Built-In SEO Tools – Fine tune your search engine rankings

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an increasingly important part of building a Web site and doing business on the Internet. All Brix Web sites are built to today’s SEO standards so Google and other search engines can easily crawl and index your entire site.

  • Friendly URLs for every page
  • Site Title, Keywords, and Description META tags
  • Enhanced SEO Package includes Page Title, Keywords and Description per page
  • Auto-Generated Site Map