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The nuts and bolts of an ecommerce site are design and development. We address design innovation and trends — including layouts, colors, photography, logos, video, and more. We explain the basics of code — HTML, CSS, JavaScript — as well as platforms, themes, plugins, open source, and related topics.

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Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: November 15, 2017

November 15, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-November from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on holiday shipping, augmented reality, mobile analytics, customer ...
Design & Dev Tools
17 Tools and Resources for Logo Design

November 13, 2017 • Sig Ueland

A good logo conveys the message and essential truth of a brand. Whether you’re interested in creating your own logo or finding the right designer, there are a variety of ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: November 1, 2017

November 1, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for late October from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on augmented reality tools, image-recognition for search,
Schools & Resources
14 Free Ebooks on Web Design, to Inspire

October 29, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Online merchants could always use some free expert advice from the design community. There is a wide variety of free ebooks available to help. Here is a list of helpful ebooks ...
Design & Dev Tools
Comparing Web Servers: Dedicated vs. Virtual Private

October 25, 2017 • Eric Davis

In “Don’t Self-host an Ecommerce Store,” my previous article, I explained how owning and maintaining web servers are poor options for most stores. In this article I’ll address a better alternative:
Code
Frameworks Such as PhoneGap and React Native Ease Mobile App Development

October 22, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Development frameworks such as PhoneGap and, more recently, React Native make it significantly easier for retail businesses to build and deploy mobile applications for consumers and internal teams. Radio-frequency identification readers ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: October 16, 2017

October 16, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for October from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping, mobile returns, voice-activated commerce, payments, and ...
Code
A Short Introduction to CSS Grid Layout for Ecommerce Sites

October 13, 2017 • Armando Roggio

CSS Grid is a two-dimensional layout model that can be combined with CSS media queries to produce complex and responsive website layouts, including layouts for ecommerce stores. The Internet and the ...
Platforms & Apps
Don’t Self-host an Ecommerce Store

October 11, 2017 • Eric Davis

Every ecommerce store needs to be hosted somewhere. But there’s little reason, in 2017, to self-host. In this post I’ll explain why. Self-hosting is where a company acquires physical servers and ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: October 2, 2017

October 2, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates from late September from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on advertising, visual search, artificial intelligence, multimedia ...
Design & Development
6 Uncommon Marketing Tactics to Try This Christmas

September 26, 2017 • Armando Roggio

A good marketing plan can include a mixture of tried and true tactics and, also, somewhat unusual or uncommon promotions. With the 2017 Christmas shopping season closing in, your marketing department ...
Platforms & Apps
From Shopping Cart to Ecommerce Platform and Back Again?

September 21, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Ten or 15 years ago many of the companies selling goods and services online would have described their ecommerce software as a “shopping cart.” Now, changes in software development could ...
Schools & Resources
12 New Ecommerce Books for Fall 2017

September 18, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Fall is here, and with it comes a new batch of ecommerce books. There are titles on podcasting, invention, global ecommerce, creating a brand message, and using data for success. I ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: September 17, 2017

September 17, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-September from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on advertising, productivity apps, payment solutions, and live ...
Design & Dev Tools
21 Free Web Design Tools, Summer 2017

September 13, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Enhance your website with free elements and tools from the design community. Here is a list of new web tools and design elements from summer 2017. There are designer and developer ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: August 30, 2017

August 30, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for late August, from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on daily deals, instant pickup, voice-based shopping,
Code
Understanding Code Deployments, for Ecommerce

August 24, 2017 • Eric Davis

“Code complete” is a common saying among software developers when they have finished a development project. But code complete doesn’t mean everything is done. Once developers have written code for a ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: August 16, 2017

August 16, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-August from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on customer reviews, same-day delivery, fraud protection, digital ...
Platforms & Apps
21 Apps for BigCommerce, to Extend and Enhance

August 14, 2017 • Sig Ueland

In 2012, BigCommerce launched an integration fund, which lead to hundreds of third-party apps for its platform. Recently BigCommerce launched an expanded partner program with new certification tiers —certified, premier,
Platforms & Apps
Omnichannel Commerce Needs a New Kind of CMS

August 11, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Businesses striving to provide shoppers with omnichannel experiences need to find new ways to manage, store, and present product information. Commerce is changing. For retailers, shoppers now have many ways to ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: August 1, 2017

August 1, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for late July from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shoppable images and video, ecommerce personalization,
Platforms & Apps
Which Comes First, the Ecommerce Platform or the Developer?

July 31, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Your ecommerce business needs a new platform and a developer — but in what order? An ecommerce platform is the software your business will use to conduct online transactions and a developer ...
User Experience
SEO: Design for People, Develop for Bots

July 21, 2017 • Jill Kocher Brown

One of the frequent reasons given for ignoring search engine optimization is this: “We’re not selling to bots, we’re selling to people.” This argument highlights an ignorance of the role ...
Code
Confessions of an Ecommerce Developer

July 17, 2017 • Eric Davis

Web developers have standard processes and techniques to get their jobs done. They also have informal habits and opinions that influence their work — the kinds of things that no ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: July 17, 2017

July 17, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of product releases and updates for mid-July from companies that offer services to online merchants. There are updates on shipping services, coding, ecommerce personalization, challenging Amazon,
Code
Static Site Generators an Option for Ecommerce Blogs, Content

July 13, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Static site generators offer an alternative to content management systems like WordPress or similar and may produce faster-loading web pages that are more secure and less complex to maintain. Static ...
Platforms & Apps
20 Free Shopify Apps, to Extend and Enhance

July 10, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Launched a decade ago, Shopify was born out of an effort by its founders to sell snowboards online. After building their shop, they realized other stores were in need of ...
Schools & Resources
9 Trusted SEO Blogs

July 9, 2017 • Jill Kocher Brown

Search engine optimization is always changing, requiring constant investigation to keep up. One of the best ways to identify new trends, in addition to research and analysis on your own ...
Platforms & Apps
Ecommerce Product Releases: July 3, 2017

July 3, 2017 • Sig Ueland

Here is a list of ecommerce-related product releases and updates for late June. There are updates on shipping solutions, influencer marketing, payment processors, text analytics, marketing research, and Amazon’s newest ...
Design & Development
Imgix C.E.O. on Real-time Image Optimization

June 23, 2017 • Armando Roggio

Images are vital for ecommerce. Images on a home page, category pages, and campaign landing pages — they all help engage shoppers. But here’s the challenge: Are you optimizing those ...

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