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Ecommerce Know-How: Making Use of Use Cases

Ecommerce Know-How: Making Use of Use Cases

Developing clear and concise use cases when you design or redesign your ecommerce website, can improve user experience and sati... 2 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Three Ecommerce Web Design Trends

Web Design Tips: Three Ecommerce Web Design Trends

Like fashion and architecture, web design enjoys an ever changing ebb and flow as trends become popular, become mainstream, and... 3 Comments | Read More »

Ecommerce Know-How: Translate Your Ecommerce Site

Ecommerce Know-How: Translate Your Ecommerce Site

Language translation is an increasingly important part of ecommerce marketing, as many small- to mid-size businesses seek non-E... 7 Comments | Read More »

Survey: Ecommerce Entrepreneurs Use Accounting, Development Services Most

Survey: Ecommerce Entrepreneurs Use Accounting, Development Services Most

More than 40 percent of ecommerce operators responding to a recent survey said their company used professional tax, accounting,... 2 Comments | Read More »

Twenty Design Examples of Magento Commerce-based Stores

Twenty Design Examples of Magento Commerce-based Stores

Magento Commerce is perhaps the most popular open-source ecommerce platform available today because of its rich feature set, ex... 28 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: jQuery UI Accordion Widget

Web Design Tips: jQuery UI Accordion Widget

Adding an interactive accordion widget to your ecommerce site can provide a great design feature that conveys professionalism a... 2 Comments | Read More »

The PeC Review: Use 99 Designs for Crowd-sourced Graphics

The PeC Review: Use 99 Designs for Crowd-sourced Graphics

The appearance of your online store matters. Customers use a store's logo and website design to judge its trustworthiness and p... 3 Comments | Read More »

Thirteen Great Flash-based Ecommerce Sites

Thirteen Great Flash-based Ecommerce Sites

The Adobe Flash platform is bringing stunning new examples of rich media to ecommerce sites. New site design techniques make F... 15 Comments | Read More »

Google Operating System May Speed Mobile Ecommerce

Google Operating System May Speed Mobile Ecommerce

Google recently announced that it had begun work on a computer operating system that might accelerate interest in the popular m... 0 Comments | Read More »

Ten Inspiring Ecommerce Site Designs

Ten Inspiring Ecommerce Site Designs

Creating a great (and successful) ecommerce site requires a mix of terrific products, strong marketing, informative content... 7 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Mobilizing Your Site Using CSS

Web Design Tips: Mobilizing Your Site Using CSS

With a second style sheet and minor changes to a page's HTML, many online stores can offer an excellent mobile shopping experie... 0 Comments | Read More »

The PeC Review: Adobe Kuler Creates Stunning Colors for Websites

The PeC Review: Adobe Kuler Creates Stunning Colors for Websites

Adobe Kuler is a free web application that can help ecommerce site designers select beautiful and communicative color palettes,... 0 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Cufón is a Fast Font Replacement Solution

Web Design Tips: Cufón is a Fast Font Replacement Solution

An easy-to-implement JavaScript called Cufón allows web designers to quickly embed visually interesting fonts on their web page... 1 Comment | Read More »

The PeC Review: KompoZer is a Capable, Free Web Authoring System

The PeC Review: KompoZer is a Capable, Free Web Authoring System

KompoZer is a complete, open-source, and free web authoring system that combines web file management, coding hints, and a what-... 1 Comment | Read More »

Web Design Tips: The Laws of Ecommerce Navigation Design

Web Design Tips: The Laws of Ecommerce Navigation Design

CSS, Flash, jQuery, and an arsenal of other powerful web techniques and technologies have unbound website design, creating the ... 4 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Use this PNG Fix for Attractive Images in Older Browsers

Web Design Tips: Use this PNG Fix for Attractive Images in Older Browsers

For most website designs, the portable network graphic, or PNG, is simply the best available image format. But older, noncompli... 2 Comments | Read More »

The PeC Review: Microsoft Tool Helps Designers with Internet Explorer Compatibility Problems

The PeC Review: Microsoft Tool Helps Designers with Internet Explorer Compatibility Problems

Designing for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) browser has always been a problem as designers were forced to choose between w... 3 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Adding A Featured Section to Your Site Using jQuery and jFlow

Web Design Tips: Adding A Featured Section to Your Site Using jQuery and jFlow

Smooth content sliders are widgets that can show clickable product images, Adobe Flash, HTML, or other content, effectively cre... 0 Comments | Read More »

Web Design Tips: Converting an Older Table-Based Email Template To CSS

Web Design Tips: Converting an Older Table-Based Email Template To CSS

Many email templates were developed using older table-based layouts that "break" easily and are very complicated to maintain. ... 17 Comments | Read More »

Video Ideas: 4 Ways to Engage Visitors and Increase Sales

Video Ideas: 4 Ways to Engage Visitors and Increase Sales

Nearly 80 percent of U.S. Internet users spent roughly 5 hours watching videos in December 2008, with an average view time of 3... 6 Comments | Read More »

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