What is Factory Pattern?
Factory Pattern is a creational design pattern. It is responsible for creating instances of objects without using directly the object constructor. For this reason Factory Pattern is widely used in frameworks, to encapsulate the logic of creating the objects and to make the framework independent of the objects it needs to work with.
There are several types of factories, depending of the implementation:
You can find more information about Factory Design Pattern and the other Design Patterns on: oodesign.com.
FactoryPattern.com is just another blog about the same old fashioned object oriented design and this where the name came of.