Design & Development
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Design & Development
17 Free Design Tools for 2021
January 19, 2021 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of free tools to design a website, social media ad, logo, infographic, and more. There are editing applications, resources libraries, and tools to find the right font and color palette. All of these are free, though several also offer premium plans with extended features.
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20 New Free Commercial Fonts for 2021
January 5, 2021 • Sig Ueland
Adding a new font to your ecommerce site can create a fresh and unique look. Here is a list of fonts released in the last year. All are free for commercial use, though several are from larger premium font families. Before using a font, be sure to verify its terms.
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20 Free Web Design Tools from Fall 2020
December 7, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Free resources from the design community can add value to an ecommerce site. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from fall 2020. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, graphic tools, fonts, and more. All of these tools are free, though some also offer premium versions.
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15 Photoshop Tutorials for Product Photography
November 23, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Taking the photographs is just the start of compelling product images. Adobe Photoshop’s image editing suite provides plenty of tools to perfect and highlight product images against the right background.
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20 Free Tutorials to Learn WordPress
October 27, 2020 • Sig Ueland
WordPress is a free content management system to power a simple blog, complex website, or online store. WordPress also supports an active development community that provides instructional tutorials for users at all levels. Here is a list of free tutorials to learn WordPress.
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20 Free Courses to Advance Your Design Skills
October 20, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Here is a list of free, online design courses. There are courses on design thinking, web design, graphic design, user experience design, logo design, color theory, and more. Some of the courses are multi-class programs, while others are short tutorials.
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8 Marketplaces for Themes, Templates, Plugins
October 12, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Themes, templates, and plugins can simplify the creation and customization of a website. Here is a list of marketplaces to access themes, templates, and plugins. Several of these marketplaces also offer other digital assets, such as graphics, fonts, and videos to create and customize a website.
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Is JAMstack Right for Your Ecommerce Business?
September 8, 2020 • Armando Roggio
Looming changes in ecommerce development could provide a short-term competitive advantage for some businesses. Many platforms give a business just about everything needed to build an ecommerce site. They are comprehensive and monolithic. But they are also restrictive, or so JAMstack proponents imply.
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21 Free Web Design Tools from Summer 2020
September 7, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Free resources from the design community can add value to an ecommerce site. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from summer 2020. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these tools are free, though some also offer premium versions.
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13 Logo Galleries for Inspiration
August 17, 2020 • Sig Ueland
A logo is an opportunity to establish your brand and convey your company’s unique identity. A logo gallery can help via examples and inspiration. Here is a list of helpful logo galleries.
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‘Payment Request API’ to Streamline Ecommerce Checkouts, Improve Security
August 17, 2020 • Armando Roggio
A standard application programming interface is helping to eliminate website checkout forms and improve the ecommerce experience on desktop, laptop, and mobile devices. Ecommerce businesses that adopt the approach early could gain a competitive advantage.
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13 Robust Newsletter Plugins for WordPress
August 10, 2020 • Sig Ueland
WordPress is a highly customizable content management system. With the right plugins, it can be a robust email marketing platform to create a newsletter and build a list of subscribers. Here is a list of newsletter plugins for WordPress.
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23 Useful, Free Plugins for WooCommerce
July 28, 2020 • Sig Ueland
The WooCommerce plugin launched in 2011, enabling users to turn their WordPress sites into ecommerce storefronts. Today, approximately one-fourth of all online stores use WooCommerce, which is now owned by Automattic, parent of WordPress. Here is a list of useful plugins to enhance your WooCommerce store.
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Evolving Tech Stack Enables High Performance Ecommerce
July 22, 2020 • Armando Roggio
The technologies powering the web and mobile applications never stop evolving. Each new phase creates opportunities for businesses. The latest iteration is the expansion of so-called edge network capabilities, which help online merchants improve performance and user experience. Both are fundamental to Google's new "web vitals" initiative.
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13 Free Themes for Publishing on Ghost
July 13, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Ghost is an open-source publishing platform. Started as a Kickstarter campaign by a former developer with WordPress, Ghost offers simple content management and built-in features for search engine optimization and email newsletters. Here is a list of free templates to publish content on Ghost.
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Drag-and-drop Ecommerce Tools Are on the Rise
July 8, 2020 • Armando Roggio
For years, ecommerce platform providers have sought to make it easy for SMBs to present and sell products online. Current offerings from Shogun, BigCommerce, and Wix demonstrate that ease-of-use and lack of coding are still in demand.
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3 Excellent Performance Testing Tools from Google
June 24, 2020 • Armando Roggio
How quickly a web page loads and becomes interactive is closely related to user experience and conversions, and thus sales and profit. Google has three helpful testing tools to understand how well a website is performing and, also, how to improve it.
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20 Free Web Design Tools from Spring 2020
June 2, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Free resources from the design community can add value to an ecommerce site. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from spring 2020. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more.
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20 WordPress Plugins to Manage a Blog
May 18, 2020 • Sig Ueland
A blog can promote your brand and provide valuable content. WordPress is arguably the best platform to host a blog, mainly due to roughly 50,000 free or inexpensive plugins. Here is a list of plugins to manage a blog on WordPress.
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14 Platforms to Sell Digital Downloads, Subscriptions
May 5, 2020 • Sig Ueland
There are a variety of ecommerce platforms for merchants and creators of digital goods — videos, ebooks, software. Here is a list of platforms to sell digital products. There are simple, dedicated tools to sell basic digital goods, and there are advanced platforms to offer subscription systems, secure digital rights management, and even sell physical goods.
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15 New Video Tools for Creating, Editing, Sharing
April 27, 2020 • Sig Ueland
For merchants who want to create, edit, and share videos, there are plenty of new innovative online tools for little or no expense. Here is a list of recently released tools from online video platforms and social media applications.
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Capture Gmail Messages in a Google Sheet
April 22, 2020 • Armando Roggio
With Google Apps Script, marketers can capture Gmail messages, parse them for relevant information, and add them row-by-row to a Google spreadsheet. This can be especially helpful for capturing leads or contacts.
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17 Tools for Live-streaming Video
April 20, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Live-streaming video offers individuals and brands a direct way to engage and connect. With so many of us working remotely, there’s never been a better time to use live-streaming. Here is a list of tools for live-streaming video.
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22 Free Web Design Tools from Winter 2020
March 23, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Resources from the design community can add value to your ecommerce site. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from winter 2020. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these tools are free, though some also offer premium versions.
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Brave, a Privacy-focused Web Browser, Attracts Techies
March 6, 2020 • Armando Roggio
Brave is a niche web browser popular with tech enthusiasts for its privacy, ad blocking, and unique crypto-currency-based advertising and rewards system.
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24 New, Free Commercial Fonts for 2020
January 27, 2020 • Sig Ueland
Adding a new font to your ecommerce site can create a fresh, unique look. A dramatic display font could grab attention. A cool script could set a mood. Here is a list of fonts released in the last year.
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Customize Shopify Product Pages with Metafields
January 17, 2020 • Armando Roggio
The standard description field on a Shopify product detail page is a monolithic block of content. Adding different sections to this block is possible, but the process is not ideal.
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Speed Up Your Slowest Pages with Prefetching
January 3, 2020 • Hamlet Batista
In previous articles I’ve addressed ideas to improve page speed, such as with HTML caching and isolating slow loading resources. In this post, I'll explain how to determine your slowest pages and apply a simple fix to speed them up.
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Are Big Changes Coming to the Ecommerce Stack?
December 22, 2019 • Armando Roggio
Headless content management systems and site generators are driving a new content-centric web. The changes could be coming to ecommerce, at scale, very soon.
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23 Free Web Design Tools from Fall 2019
December 9, 2019 • Sig Ueland
Free resources from the design community can add value to your ecommerce site. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from fall 2019. There are designer and developer apps, coding resources, color tools, fonts, and more. All of these tools are free, though some also offer premium versions.
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